Ideology and military hardware
But it was rather disconcerting … to find the World Bank standing marginally to the left of spokespersons from the Mozambican government. (105)
My friend also referred to a long series of discussions he and I had had over the years (including during the period when I had taught at the FRELIMO party school) in which I had often emphasized the costs of FRELIMO’s embracing the particularly lifeless brand of Marxism on offer from the Soviets as the ideological instrument for codifying its radical intentions. We should probably have listened more to you, he said lightly, then – in a wry voice – ‘Of course, you didn’t have in your briefcase the military hardware that we also felt we needed’! (107-108)
John S. Saul. “Mozambique: The Failure of Socialism?” Transformation 14 (1991): 104-110.