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18 Nov

Zimbabwe: How the Berlin Wall collapse affected us: Zimbabweans have Order Alprazolam Europe no compelling reason to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 – or Order Alprazolam Europe the fall of Communism, which followed it, domino-like. True or Order Alprazolam Europe false? Most zealots of the Order Alprazolam Europe original plot to turn the country into a one-party state pretend it Order Alprazolam Europe never happened. Or that, if it did, it had little effect on their politics or Order Alprazolam Europe the country’s political destiny. That, some would say, was the height of self-delusion.
The two liberation movements, ZANU PF and Order Alprazolam Europe PF ZAPU were proteges of communist China and the Soviet Union respectively. Without their material, ideological, and Order Alprazolam Europe moral support, they wouldn’t have made any headway in the struggle against the white supremacists.

Then, after independence, the short-lived coalition government chose Marxism-Leninism – almost inevitably. ZANU PF was more obsessed with that Order Alprazolam Europe goal than PF ZAPU. There is little doubt that Robert Mugabe was keener on controlling everything and Order Alprazolam Europe everyone in the country than Joshua Nkomo. Journalists working for Order Alprazolam Europe the private media found themselves, after 1981, suddenly working for Order Alprazolam Europe the government media. This point of “control” was brought home to Order Alprazolam Europe them with the violence of a tsunami. Those who had visited the Order Alprazolam Europe Soviet Union and China saw the stark similarities: the campaign of regimentation, of all people dwelling on one thought – serving the Order Alprazolam Europe Sate and The Party. For them, it had a sickening sense of de javu.

Overnight, there were incessant briefings, not just by Mugabe himself, but by diverse cabinet ministers. Their theme was the Order Alprazolam Europe same: acquaint the people with the government programme – which was of implementing “Gutsa ruzhunji” – socialism. There was no Order Alprazolam Europe time for according capitalism any special mention, except as the No. 1 Enemy of the Order Alprazolam Europe People. Capitalism had backed the Smith regime against the socialist-backed struggle of the Order Alprazolam Europe guerillas of ZANLA and ZIPRA. Most of the journalists had learnt their journalism through Western eyes. Their view of both China and Order Alprazolam Europe the Soviet Union was jaundiced: intrigue, murder, lies, falsehoods, and the Order Alprazolam Europe “oneness of the people” – the one party system.

After the Order Alprazolam Europe fall of both the Wall and communism, there was an Order Alprazolam Europe embarrassed, ambivalent silence among the leaders. Most whispered among themselves that Order Alprazolam Europe there would be a reversal: Mikhail Gorbachev was pilloried. He didn’t know what Order Alprazolam Europe he had started, they warned darkly. He had taken on more than Order Alprazolam Europe he could chew, they said. They predicted he would bite the Order Alprazolam Europe dust. There was an inept attempt to pretend the crisis was overblown. It was no Order Alprazolam Europe crisis at all – Communism would survive, would bounce back, they insisted, rather desperately. Remember Hungary in 1956? Remember Alexander Dubchek in Czechoslavakia? They had all fizzled out, and communism had triumphed. It was indestructible.

Then Gorbachev won the Order Alprazolam Europe Nobel Peace Prize. No leader in Zimbabwe came anywhere near to Order Alprazolam Europe winning anything of anything. Nobody was giving awards for bungling an Order Alprazolam Europe economy that should have been nursed carefully to achieve its potential. So, who Order Alprazolam Europe had bitten the dust? Rather apologetically, both Russia and Order Alprazolam Europe China made gestures to the leadership that they were still looking after their interests, even if less glaringly than Order Alprazolam Europe before. Both could not disguise their willingness to profit from Order Alprazolam Europe the change in their ideological thrust: the Russian Federation was manifestly capitalist. China went crazy over the Order Alprazolam Europe consumerism of free enterprise. Continue reading.

Last week, I wrote a column titled Africa after 1989.

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15 Nov

This is really good stuff!

HT Nyokabi

Order Alprazolam Europe

15 Nov

From the ASA blog, by Keith Hart: For Marcel Mauss, the Order Alprazolam Europe years 1920-25 were packed and fruitful. His political party and the Order Alprazolam Europe Left in general had a real shot at winning power in France and Order Alprazolam Europe did so in 1924. Two-thirds of his occasional political pieces (Écrits politiques) were written in this period. He was able to relaunch his group’s journal, Année sociologique, by the period’s end, contributing to Order Alprazolam Europe it his most famous essay, on The Gift. He suffered some reverses at this Order Alprazolam Europe time, including a serious illness, but remained optimistic for both political and Order Alprazolam Europe intellectual regeneration on a social scale that was increasingly international in scope.

He began serious work on a Order Alprazolam Europe book dealing with the main political currents of the day, nationalism and Order Alprazolam Europe socialism. His interest in the American “potlatch” was expanded by the publication of Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Order Alprazolam Europe Western Pacific in 1922, confirming his belief that competitive gift-exchange was endemic in Melanesia and Order Alprazolam Europe Polynesia, as well as elsewhere. And the Institut d’ethnologie was formed in 1925 with Rivet, Lévy-Bruhl and Mauss himself in charge.

In the late 1920s, things began to unravel on all fronts. Mauss’s personal standing as a Order Alprazolam Europe savant grew inexorably; but his party suffered political reverses, its newspaper and Order Alprazolam Europe journal folded, the cooperative movement foundered and the Année sociologique could not continue. Mussolini’s appropriation of the “nationalization of socialism” must have raised doubts about Mauss’s own political programme. His closest friend, Henri Hubert, died in 1927, compounding Mauss’s loss of family and colleagues during the war.

The years 1920-25 stand apart for Order Alprazolam Europe the energy and fulfillment they brought. Mauss himself kept a sort of Chinese wall between his academic and Order Alprazolam Europe political interests; so it is not so surprising that the two have Order Alprazolam Europe been kept apart, especially in the Anglophone world, where his political writings are Order Alprazolam Europe virtually unknown. He allowed himself one public attempt to bridge them, the Order Alprazolam Europe concluding chapter of The Gift. Even so, the essay itself does not provide an Order Alprazolam Europe effective intellectual link between the two compartments of Mauss’s life. Read in full.

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The first in a Order Alprazolam Europe series of posts on the financial crisis by economic anthrologist Keith Hart, at the Order Alprazolam Europe ASA Globalog. The series will engage:

long-run historical questions like what Order Alprazolam Europe this crisis is, with the news as it unfolds in real time and Order Alprazolam Europe with issues that matter practically to people who don’t have to be reminded that “It’s the economy, stupid!”

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