you think africans are niggersOriginally Posted by Mr. E
you categorize yourself as a white man
you think africans are niggers
you categorize yourself as a white man
Of course Mozambique was not a socialist state, I noted its "socialism" as an ironic note. As with Angola, its "socialism" consisted of "We want AK-47s" and not much else. Like the Soviet Union itself, Mozambique was a state-capitalist country.
As Enver Hoxha said in 1978 of Angola:
Albania, using socialist methods and genuine central planning (as happened in the USSR up until the 1950's), was able to industrialize greatly and was able to secure both a stable economy and greater living standards for its people.Under the cloak of aid for peoples' liberation the Soviet Union and its mercenary, Cuba are intervening in other countries with armies equipped with artillery and machine-guns, allegedly to build socialism, which does not exist in either the Soviet Union or Cuba. These two bourgeois-revisionist states intervened in Angola in order to help a capitalist clique seize power, contrary to the aims of the Angolan people who had fought to win their freedom from the Portuguese colonialists.
Unlike Mozambique, Albanian health care was, in the words of bourgeois professor James S. O'Donnell, a great improvement in every respect over pre-socialist health care. This, too, applied to pretty much every other segment of Albanian life transformed under socialism.
It is worth noting that Mozambique experienced a situation similar to what Guinea had faced in 1958, only in the case of Mozambique it was Portugal instead of France. "On October 2, 1958, when the final returns of the referendum had come in, Guinea proclaimed herself an independent republic. Soon thereafter all French experts were recalled from the country, and a rapid outflow of French capital followed..."
Still, the policies pursued by the Mozambican Government were not bad ones. "After independence the government established universally free education, nationalized health care and guaranteed medical treatment to all people, relocated thousands of families from slums to new dwellings, and established a network of Peoples' Shops to facilitate distribution of basic commodities at fair prices... In health, there was an emphasis on preventive medicine and on recruitment of medical workers from other countries to supplement the efforts of the some fifty doctors who remained after independence; and a rural health care system was established." ("Socialist Transformation in Mozambique," Africa Today, 1980)
Also of note on "socialist construction":
"Lack of managerial ability, experience, and capital, and the overall conditions of underdevelopment in Mozambique, proved unsurmountable obstacles, particularly visible in the all-important agricultural sector... probably 90 per cent of the rural population continued to operate individual farms free from outside control."
("From Symbolic Socialism to Symbolic Reform," The Journal of Modern African Studies, 1988)
Last edited by Husein; 04-25-2010 at 03:33 AM.
nobody gives a shit
oh
hippocrass just gets me
we did it!
oh
you got to be shitting me coq.. my planned arrival in canada pretty much as you leave.
i begin to think you dont love me anymore
trust me i am thrilled to be gone for the summer in Africa only to return when winter begins.
don't forget to bring your antiretroviral drugs with you
PANDAS
If you don't like them, then get the fuck out.
I'm going to Waukesha and Milwaukee this weekend, then heading up to Packard.
watch out for malaria
i dunno i think that's pretty cool
except to me mozambique was just one of those funny sounding countries you used to say when you threatened to run away
"oh yeah, parents, i'm runnin' away. to mozambique!"
psh, americans
anything outside of my immediate existence is hardly worth knowing about
oh
where do australian children threaten to run away to, america?
adelaide
back in my stoner days i always blamed the smell of pot on my clothes on the 'american cigarettes' my friend had
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