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...liked your Essay, especially its conclusion. People submerged in details often lose sight of principles. We want peace, but a peace of justice, not of compromise. At the moment, the only way to attain such a peace is victory...
...think they have a militarist vocation. A minority of the military calling themselves, let's say, intellectuals, may try to organize a militarist concept of government. They confuse technocracy and dictatorship and try to introduce technocracy through a military regime, using it as a medium to attain the technocrat's objective...
...realizes that the revolutionary government must attain these goals at the same time it bridges the political gap between regional tribe loyalties and mass feeling for a centralized policy. Obinani does not see, however, that as the government fulfills stated economic needs, new needs are inevitably generated. This is the "revolution of rising expectations." Since no government can possibly keep pace with increasing demands of the people, can Nigeria have a stable policy for any length of time...
David Gordon's "Communities of Despair" points out an analogous problem. As developing countries will probably not be able to reach desired rates of economic growth, so too will Negroes be unable to attain true equality of achievement for a long time. Gordon says that the "excruciating frustration of negritude--engendered by that persistent gap between aspiration and perceived reality--provides a constant goal to leader and followers alike." He sees two possible paths out of this circular dilemma: changing the social structure of the country, or introducing a new criteria of equality, participating democracy, to replace the conventional criteria...
...same contradiction. In Nigeria, Tanzania, and the American Civil Rights movement, people want to gain independence, but they need help from larger society. At some point revolutionary movements may have to compromise their radicalism in order to succeed. Still they must hold off compromise as long as possible to attain independence in the end. Peter Weiner's article called "Guatemala: the Aborted Revolution" is distressing because it places most of the blame for the failure of that revolution on the United States. If American aid is so important for the success of a Guatemalan revolution, then these people will...