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Nach einer kurzen Analyse der einschlägigen Literatur werden vier Wege diskutiert und mit zahlreichen Beispielen belegt, die dem Staat in Afrika zur Bildung einer dominierenden Herrschaftsklasse offenstehen: 1) über die legitime Beschäftigungs- und Ausgabenpolitik des Staates; 2) über seine Entwicklungspläne und Entwicklungsstrategie; 3) über die Manipulierung ethnischer Bindungen, um das Entstehen eines Klassenbewußtseins und eine Organisation der sozial unteren Volksteile zu verhindern sowie 4) schließlich über die illegitime Anhäufung staatlichen Wohlstands und staatlicher Macht durch politische Korruption. Abschließend werden einige Überlegungen zur Bedeutung und zu den Folgen dieser Klassenbildungsprozesse angestellt. (DÜI-Hlb)

This article suggests that Bourdieu's model of class, framed in terms of cultural capital and habitus, is particularly valuable in understanding the restoration of capitalism under postcommunist conditions. Following the analyses of Szelényi and his collaborators, it is suggested that post-communist managerialism is still strikingly more pronounced than in the West. This and the notion of habitus in particular are perhaps the main elements of Bourdieu's thinking on which we can draw in theorizing postcommunist transition.

Zambia's stance on the liberation of southern Africa has seemed to vacillate in the last few years. In fact there have always been contradictory elements in her policy — shooting of refugees and liberation movements, imposing sanctions on the one hand, but a readiness to parley with the white regimes, a commitment to 'peaceful' change, on the other. These contradictions have deepened and Zambia has become more prone to compromise and to deliver movements up to the negotiating table as a result of the country's perilous economic crisis and, of more permanent importance, the emergence of a more powerful local bourgeoisie.

THIS ISSUE IS ORGANIZED AROUND THE FORMATION OF SOCIAL CLASSES AS A HISTORICAL PROCESS, AND IT PROVIDES ANALYSES OF SOME OF THE MAIN FEATURES OF CLASS STRUCTURE AND CLASS STRUGGLE IN LATIN AMERICAN TODAY. AS IN ISSUE 34 OF LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES ("RURAL CLASS RELATIONS"), OUR CONCERNS ARE LESS TO PRESENT DESCRIPTIVE STUDIES OF PARTICULAR CLASSES THAN TO TRY TO IDENTIFY PATTERNS OF HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE REGION AS SHAPED BY ONGOING CLASS FORMATION AND STRUGGLE. WHILE CLASS FORMATION AND STRUGGLE CONCRETELY TAKE PLACE IN NATIONAL CONTEXTS, THEY ARE HIGHLY CONDITIONED BY INTERNATIONAL FORCES.