Ideology and class struggle in Africa: A historical overview
In: Development and peace: a semi-annual journal devoted to economic political and social aspects of development and international relations, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 198-208
ISSN: 0209-5602
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In: Development and peace: a semi-annual journal devoted to economic political and social aspects of development and international relations, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 198-208
ISSN: 0209-5602
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In: International political science review: IPSR = Revue internationale de science politique : RISP, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 115-132
ISSN: 0192-5121
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In: International political science review: the journal of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) = Revue internationale de science politique, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 115-132
ISSN: 1460-373X
Embracing a conception of the state as both an entity that acts, in the last instance, on behalf of the ruling class (which, in the case of Africa, is the metropolitan bourgeoisie) and as a set of institutions that constitutes an arena for class struggles, the author argues that the state in Africa continues its colonial function of integrating the continent more firmly into the orbit of capitalist imperialism. Proceeding from the observation that the state in Africa originated from the class forces of the metropole, it is argued that this remains the decisive factor in its social orientation, an orientation that explains its primary function of subordinating Africa's resources to the profit impulse of multinational capital. The author concludes that the contradictions of global capitalism that radiate with peculiar intensity in Africa promise an uncertain future for the postcolonial capitalist state, as it becomes increasingly difficult for the dominant classes to maintain their grip on the institutions of the state.
In: Development and peace: a semi-annual journal devoted to economic political and social aspects of development and international relations, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 116-129
ISSN: 0209-5602
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In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 336-339
ISSN: 1469-7777
In: Africa development: a quarterly journal of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa = Afrique et développement, Band 6, Heft 4, S. 54-72
ISSN: 0850-3907
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In: AFRIGOV Monograph Series, No. 1
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