Rather than modernization, we have "primitive accumulation" for a small circle of the ruler's family members.
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.
The architects of the self-management schemes had good ideas, but they were not the ones to execute and oversee the self-management (autogestion) project.
The president could rule by fiat, a structure that welcomed a coup d' etat because this alone could change the reins of government in a society that had been substantially depoliticized.
