“What is to be done? Burning questions of our movement”

Prins, Gwyn

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“…Marxism-Leninism is the theory, tactics, and practice of the working class socialist revolution in the era of imperialism or the monopoly stage of capitalism. Marxism-Leninism has been informed by conceptual and theoretical developments on a variety of critical topics including the state (Lenin, /1973a, bourgeois and proletarian democracy (Lenin, 1918(Lenin, /1970a, party building and tactics (Lenin, 1902(Lenin, /1973b, capitalism in its final imperialist stage (Lenin, /1973c, revolutionary strategy and tactics (Lenin, 1920(Lenin, /1970b, Leninist political practice (J. V. Stalin, 1924Stalin, / 1970, and women and the working class (Zetkin, 1934). At least five essential features of Marxist-Leninist theory can be identified (Lenin, 1963;Lenin, 1902Lenin, /1973b.…”

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“…Fourth, Marxist-Leninists view the cornerstone of meaningful struggle against oppression as the development and primacy of a revolutionary party (Lenin, 1902(Lenin, /1973b. A revolutionary workers' party both conducts political agitation that exposes economic abuses by the capitalist class and through struggle leverages concessions from them while concomitantly striving to increase class consciousness among workers and to achieve higher forms of revolutionary struggle to eliminate the existing capitalist system.…”

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Intersectionality: A dialogue with Marxism–Leninism.

Gamst

2023

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Ps

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Intersectionality: A dialogue with Marxism–Leninism.

Gamst

2023

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Ps

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“…It soon became apparent that the methodological and quantitative problems associated with such modelling exercises were out of all proportion to their rather weak, functionalist, explanatory insights. The main focus in African ethnomedical studies has swung away from ecology back to the healer, the patient, and the world of signs and meanings which they inhabit (Prins, 1981;Ngubane, 1981;Janzen, 1981). This parallels a growing realization that western medicine, in striving for technological sophistication, has created, or failed to solve, a large number of sociological problems, e.g.…”

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Ecological Change and the Politics of African Land Use

Richards¹

1983

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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This essay explores ground common to ecology and politics. It addresses the question to what extent and in what ways are ecological ideas political ideas. The discussion, divided into five man sections, endeavors to steer a course between the pitfalls of environmental determinism on the one hand and economic reductionism on the other.The first section deals with the link between population processes and land use. Explanations stressing population increase as the driving force behind agricultural change are contrasted with arguments in which demographic fluctuations are treated as responses to economic imperatives. An example of the second kind of approach is Meillassoux's attempt to reconstruct the demographic dynamic of a precapitalist, lineage, mode of production. This is but one of a number of attempts to construct models of “natural economy” as starting points for discussions of the penetration of African agriculture by capitalism. Against the assumptions on which such models are based it is argued here, and in later sections of the paper, that the demographic and ecological processes subsumed under the category “natural economy” (or alternatively, “precapitalist subsistence production”) are more plausibly viewed as products of capitalism and colonialism. An example from southern Nigeria in the early colonial period is used to suggest that the kind of evidence on which Meillassoux's reconstruction is based is a complex ideological by-product of factional politics in an economy dominated by merchant capital.The second section of the paper focuses on the topic of the ecology of disease in Africa. Special attention is paid to John Ford's (1971) work on the ecology of trypanosomiasis. Critical of colonial scientific orthodoxy, and of colonialism itself (properly treated as a factor in the spread of sleeping sickness in Africa in the twentieth century), Ford's book has received some attention from Africanists in the social sciences and humanities. It is probably fair to say, however, that the originality of the book's ecological argument has yet to have its full impact on such readers. This is the justification for substantial summary of one of Ford's case studies. The significance of this case study is that is illustrates the ecological complexity characteristic of trypanosomiasis, and of a number of other African epidemic diseases, and the importance of local knowledge and initiative in adapting to such diseases.

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“…The main focus in African ethnomedical studies has swung away from ecology back to the healer, the patient, and the world of signs and meanings which they inhabit (Prins, 1981;Ngubane, 1981;Janzen, 1981). This parallels a growing realization that western medicine, in striving for technological sophistication, has created, or failed to solve, a large number of sociological problems, e.g.…”

Section: The Ecology Of Health and Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

Ecological Change and the Politics of African Land Use

Richards¹

1983

African Studies Review

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. African Studies Association is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to African Studies Review. INTRODUCTIONThis essay explores ground common to ecology and politics.1 It addresses the question to what extent and in what ways are ecological ideas political ideas. The discussion, divided into five man sections, endeavors to steer a course between the pitfalls of environmental determinism on the one hand and economic reductionism on the other.The first section deals with the link between population processes and land use. Explanations stressing population increase as the driving force behind agricultural change are contrasted with arguments in which demographic fluctuations are treated as responses to economic imperatives. An example of the second kind of approach is Meillassoux's attempt to reconstruct the demographic dynamic of a precapitalist, lineage, mode of production. This is but one of a number of attempts to construct models of "natural economy" as starting points for discussions of the penetration of African agriculture by capitalism. Against the assumptions on which such models are based it is argued here, and in later sections of the paper, that the demographic and ecological processes subsumed under the category "natural economy" (or alternatively, "precapitalist subsistence production") are more plausibly viewed as products of capitalism and colonialism. An example from southern Nigeria in the early colonial period is used to suggest that the kind of evidence on which Meillassoux's reconstruction is based is a complex ideological by-product of factional politics in an economy dominated by merchant capital.The second section of the paper focuses on the topic of the ecology of disease in Africa. Special attention is paid to John Ford's (1971) work on the ecology of trypanosomiasis. Critical of colonial scientific orthodoxy, and of colonialism itself (properly treated as a factor in the spread of sleeping sickness in Africa in the twentieth century), Ford's book has received some attention from Africanists in the social sciences and humanities. It is probably fair to say, however, that the originality of the book's ecological argument has yet to have its full impact on such readers. This is the justification for substantial summary of one of Ford's case studies. The significance of this case study is that is illustrates the ecological complexity characteristic of trypanosomiasis, and of a number of other African epidemic diseases, and the importance of local knowledge and initiative in African Studies Review, vol. 26, no. 2, June, 1983. 1 This content downloaded from 62.122.78.57 on Mon, 9 Jun 2014 19:30:54 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and...

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“What is to be done? Burning questions of our movement”

Cited by 6 publications

References 25 publications

Intersectionality: A dialogue with Marxism–Leninism.

Intersectionality: A dialogue with Marxism–Leninism.

Ecological Change and the Politics of African Land Use

Ecological Change and the Politics of African Land Use

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