| | There is now broad agreement on the left that Frelimo's agrarian policy was not a success in socialist terms, either economically or politically. The principal elements of the left critique have been that Frelimo's policy of concentrating investment in the state-sector marginalised peasant production, and that the development of a centralised hegemonic party excluded the peasantry from the political process. External aggression is seen as having contributed to Frelimo's economic and political problems, but not as their fundamental cause. |
