MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK FOR THE HAVE NOTS
In: International journal on world peace, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 3-26
ISSN: 0742-3640
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In: International journal on world peace, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 3-26
ISSN: 0742-3640
In: Monthly Review, Band 34, Heft 8, S. 51
ISSN: 0027-0520
In: Issue: a journal of opinion, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 4-11
After winning a war of national liberation, FRELIMO faces the vexing question of whether socialism now can be established. With respect to Guinea-Bissau, Amilcar Cabral emphasized: 'This depends on the instruments used to effect the transition to socialism; the essential factor is the nature of the state...." No doubt his statement was premised on the belief that socialism begins with the conquest of the state by the producing classes. They must seize the state apparatus to defeat the ruling class whose power is concentrated there. Both the means of coercion and the forces that reproduce the system itself are part of this domain. It is only by gaining control of state power, which is a political act, that the working classes can subsequently organize a socialist economy.