Detaillierte Studie zum Aufstieg Anglo American's zu einem der größten Unternehmen in Südafrika. Dieser ursprünglich als Dissertation angelegte Band untersucht den Zusammenschluß von Anglo American and de Beers, die Bedeutung des Unternehmens im Industrie- und Minenbereich zwischen den Weltkriegen, die nach dem Krieg gewonnene Monopolstellung sowie die Rolle, die der Konzern in der südafrikanischen Innen- und Außenpolitik spielt
The struggle for national liberation in Namibia has developed historically into a confrontation between the South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) on the one hand and the apartheid regime in South Africa on the other. Yet over the last few years we have witnessed the rise of other political groupings inside Namibia, the staging of the so‐called "Turnhalle" Constitutional Conference and the open involvement of the major Western powers in the struggle. This article attempts to explore the broader issue of South African imperialist involvement in Namibia and to examine the response of the Namibian people to that involvement. In so doing it will attempt to throw some light on the current stage of the struggle and to assess some of the more important recent political developments in relation to that broader struggle.
The authors argue that, although purporting to deal with class struggle, the article on 'Class Struggle and the Periodisation of the State in South Africa' in ReviewNo. 7 fails to focus its attention on the fundamental contradiction in South African society ‐ that of the struggle between capital and labour. The reason for this inadequacy lies in the article's dependency on the Poulantzian method of analysis which incorrectly separates 'economics' and 'politics' from the 'fundamental relations of exploitation' in capitalist society. It is only by establishing the unity between the relations of exploitation and their manifestation as political and economic forms that the state's position in the class struggle can be correctly located.
This article rejects the distinction between nationaland foreigncapital based on the passport, residence, birthplace or other attributes of the owners. It rather suggests that by distinguishing between national and international capital according to the nature of the investment opportunities required to induce investment, it is possible to make a vital connection between externally and internally oriented economic activity. This places into proper perspective the widespread notion of development occurring through merely expanding internal markets and suggests that in an open economy attention must be directed to the problems surrounding the expansion of exports. This expansion is in turn limited in a variety of ways and an analysis of these limits is shown to be critical for evaluating the possibility that South Africa's past growth rates might be glibly extrapolated into the future. The struggle over the earnings from such exports and the common interest in expanding them, further provides a useful way of looking at political struggle within South Africa.
