Ujamaa versus Scientific Socialism – Why Walter Rodney is wrong
“A glaring example is that of Tanzanian President Nyerere’s Ujamaa experiment. While it is true that his ideas were motivated by the highest moral convictions on his part, theoretically and in practice they have proved to be limited and unworkable. His conception of development is very close to that of the Narodniks, and Lenin’s critique of the latter is applicable in this instance Ujamaa’s declared target is to improve the material conditions of the peasant, ‘at his own risk and
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