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Debate from ROAPE Volume 3 Number 6
There is no Theory of Petit-Bourgeois Politics
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There is no Theory of Petit-Bourgeois Politics
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Vol.3 No.6 (Summer 1976), pp84-89
Refers to Leys and Mamdani (links to both below); Williams weaves through the analysis of Leys, Mamdani and Saul and suggests a lack of Marxian analysis, which examines market and state relations to provide an empirical foundation.
- The ‘Overdeveloped’ Post Colonial State: A Re-evaluation Article by Colin Leys from Vol.3 No.5 of the Review of African Political Economy (Spring 1976, pp39-48)
- Class Struggles in Uganda Article by Mahmood Mamdani from Vol.2 No.4 of the Review of African Political Economy (Winter 1975, pp26-61)