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2006-10-01 Africa Subsaharan

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Posted by Pappy 2006-10-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "!! Hey - free land and farms - who knew?!"

Posted by newc">newc 2006-10-01 00:53|| 2006-10-01 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Who has the guns?

Posted by gorb 2006-10-01 04:45|| 2006-10-01 04:45|| Front Page Top

#3 that concept is waaaay to hard for a university educator, gorb.

Posted by anon 2006-10-01 08:08|| 2006-10-01 08:08|| Front Page Top

#4 This is a standard Marxist analysis and like most Marxist analyses it is ahistorical (despite the references to historical events).

this attitude is deeply embedded in the Zimbabwean psyche and it will take a painfully long time to unwind.

Probably.

And it is a product of more than a century of uninterrupted authoritarianism.

Nope. Wrong. Risk-aversion is built into nearly all pre-industrial / barely agricultural societies. Tradition, what the elders (who might have lived to the ripe old age of 35 and thereby accumulated wisdom) say, these guide choices in most such peoples.

One does not have to be a Marxist to agree with Karl Marxs acute observation that the tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Only if you are an idiot academic / ideologue.

The most critical agents in the transmission of this risk-evading behaviour among Zimbabweans and over decades have been the churches, schools and, for adults, the media.

Ah, yes. and if they are to have their Glorious Revolution, they first need to destroy any semblance of tradition and order in the society. Destroy the society so they can build it just they way they want it. Dictatorship by the leaders of the proletariat will be necessary, of course.

Posted by prof 2006-10-01 09:22|| 2006-10-01 09:22|| Front Page Top

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