Rather than modernization, we have "primitive accumulation" for a small circle of the ruler's family members.
The demobilization of the population led almost inexorably within the Third World to military coups and military rule. Where the military did not overthrow the civilian government, the inability of states to break from colonial borders and other such dilemmas led to a strengthened military brass. M…
Boumedienne had a vision of a "solicitous" state that tended to the needs of a respectful and quiescent population.
To break the polity into factions would obviate the idea that the freedom struggle had united the people with one interest, to create a nation against imperialism.
In March 1 963, Ben Bella's government promulgated a set of laws known as the March Decrees. These had been created in consultation with a group of European and Arab Trotskyites (including the Egyptian Luftallah Solliman, the Moroccan Mohammed Tahiri, and the Algerian Mohammed Harbi) who favored w…
