Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Summer-Fall issue of The Harvard Review-- a collection of essays, book reviews, and relevant speeches--illuminates some of the contradictions and ambiguities of the concept of revolution in the present day. Using Tanzanian President Nyerere's definition of revolution as "fundamental change in the conditions under which our...
The section "Voices of Revolution" is especially interesting because it brings the reader into the atmosphere of a political rally. Leaders from Venezuela, Mozambique, and Peru pound out the inexorable logic of their position, call for unity of classes, and preach nationalism. The spout neo-Marxian polemics--"We have nothing...
The main descriptive essay--"Tanzania: the Revolution as Reconstruction" by Peter Evans--conveys well the feeling of living in a country undergoing fundamental change. Although Evans' ideas could be better ordered, the loose organization of his essay brings across the sense of a country experimenting with a great number of...
The analytic essays take a step back from actual revolutionary experience, and raise some questions about revolution in general. In "Roots and Direction of Nigerian Revolution," F. Chukwuma Obinani shows that the political order must be relevant to economic needs. Obinani feels that the government was overthrown, although it maintained...
He 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...