Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 14 No. 38 Contemporary African State: A Ruling Class?

Abstract of Debate

Title:	The Contemporary African State: A 'Ruling Class' ?
Author:	Joshua B Forrest
Location:	Vol.14 No.38 (Spring 1987), pp66-71

A number of analysts claim that, by adopting an economically exploitative and politically aggressive posture towards rural society, the state in post-independent Africa in fact is acting as a type of ruling class. In this contribution I briefly review the arguments of the principal proponents of this view, after which I present a critique of these arguments, in which I challenge the conceptual basis of the 'state as class' analytic school.

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