| | In September 1984 the Ethiopian military government, the Dergue, is to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its seizure of power. All the indications are that this will provide it with the occasion to unveil the long-heralded Ethiopian Communist Party and declare Ethiopia a People's Democratic Republic. The question that forms the sub-title of Rend Lefort's book on Ethiopia, An Heretical Revolution, will then receive, if not an answer, at least a measure of that heresy. Will the final embrace of the Soviet model be the validation of a new and original path to socialism in which, not the working class or the Communist Party, but the army was the principal actor? |
