Re: "Socialist command type economy in Iraq"????

[Patrick Bond <pbond@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Hari Kumar" <hari.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Latterly, many of the national bourgeoisies - weak - and coming late
> onto the scene after the repast has been largely digested and burped up
> by the metropolitan countries, have had a penchant for exactly this type
> of manoeuvre. In fact, I would argue this was the thrust of Ba'thism -
> to return to the example originally offered by Ken.
> In Africa, the example of Tanzania comes readily to mind, & I am sure
> that Patrick Bond can offer many, many others.

Probably not so much in Tanzania, where accumulation isn't easy pickings. My
PhD included a study of Zimbabwe (then 'Rhodesia') during the 1930s-70s
epoch when the white settler bourgeoisie really got their luxury-ISI project
rooted thanks to massive state inputs. Similar story in South Africa. I can
send a couple of chapters if anyone wants the info (let me know offlist at
pbond@xxxxxxxxxx). Kenya is a good case for studying
party-state-(small)capitalist relations, as Colin Leys has shown.