The Next Liberation Struggle

by Saul, John S.

• ISBN13: 9781583671252
• ISBN10: 1583671250
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-30
• Publisher: Monthly Review Pr

Summary

The end of apartheid in South Africa has been widely viewed as the end of an era of African history.The Next Liberation Struggleis an indispensible guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.The Next Liberation Struggleintegrates the concrete observations of a seasoned observer and participant in southern African liberation struggles with analysis of and reflection on the large question of the place of southern Africa within the global capitalist order and its capacities to contribute toward remaking that global order. It examines specific national developments in South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, and Tanzania. At the same time, it shows throughout how the problems of each national context are linked by a common location in the global order, and argues for a collective regional response.For the past four decades John S. Saul has been among the foremost radical analysts of the struggle for liberation in southern Africa. This volume brings together his recent writings on the region in the aftermath of the decade of globalization.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	ix
INTRODUCTION: Liberation, and After	1	(14)
PART I CONTINENTAL CONSIDERATIONS
Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy	15	(72)
1. Sub-Saharan Africa in Global Capitalism (with Colin Leys)	17	(15)
2. "What Is to Be Learned? The Failure of African Socialisms and Their Future	32	(22)
3. Liberal Democracy vs. Popular Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa	54	(33)
PART II SOUTHERN AFRICA: A RANGE OF VARIATION
Peace and Reconciliation, Authoritarianism, and "African Socialism"	87	(80)
4. On War and Peace in Africa: The Mozambican Case	94	(13)
5. Lubango and After: "Forgotten History" as Politics in Contemporary Namibia (with Colin Leys)	107	(22)
6. Mugabe, Gramsci, and Zimbabwe at Twenty-Five (with Richard Saunders)	129	(17)
7. Julius Nyerere's Socialism: Learning from Tanzania	146	(21)
PART III SOUTH AFRICA: DEBATING THE TRANSITION
South Africa in Transition	167	(62)
8. The Transition	173	(22)
9. The Post-Apartheid Denouement	195	(34)
10. Starting from Scratch? A Debate	229	(13)
11. The Hares, the Hounds, and the ANC: On Joining the Third World in Post-Apartheid South Africa	242	(15)
PART IV CONCLUSION
12. Africa: The Next Liberation Struggle	257	(12)
APPENDIX: A Class Act: Canada's Anti-Apartheid Record	269	(10)
NOTES	279	(63)
INDEX	342