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Liberation Lite takes as its principal focus the limited meaning that liberation has come to have in southern Africa – despite the heroic struggles there that had so recently overthrown white racist rule. For the subsequent neocolonial recolonization of the subcontinent has not, in class and gender terms, allowed much real freedom for the mass of the southern Africa people, nor has it helped guarantee to them the expression of meaningful popular democratic ...
Author's note. 1. Introduction: development theory then and now. 2. Dependency (with Colin Leys, co-author). 3. Globalization, imperialism and development: false binaries and radical resolutions. 4. Identifying class, classifying difference. 5. The struggle, intellectual and political, continues. Conclusion: Reviving development theory as continuing anti-imperialist resistance. Notes.
In this book John Saul examines the grim reality of post liberation southern Africa and also the forms of resistance that the re-subordination of the continent now calls for. In the Process he exposes and the "Empire of Capital" and shows the linkages between inequalities and injustices reinforced by the 'free' market on the one hand and, on the other by the assertive religiosity and ethnic messianism that the "Empire" helps to emerge and then ...