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The Dream of Ujamaa After the Collapse of Communism

The Dream of Ujamaa After the Collapse of Communism THE DREAM OF UJAMAA AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM Laurenti Magesa Ujamaa on the Wealth and Civilization of Nations Ujamaa socialism was the socio-political and economic policy carried out in Tanzania under the inspiration and leadership of the then president of the country, Julius K. Nyerere, for almost two decades from 1967 up to about 1985. Nyerere retired in 1985 as president of Tanzania and in 1990 as chairman of the only legal political party at that time, known as CCM (or Chama cha Mapinduzi). As president, Nyerere had resisted pressure from the major western industrialized countries and from their financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to abandon Ujamaa in favour of the 'free market' economic system or liberal capitalism. Essentially, his reasoning was that while liberal capital- ism was efficient at facilitating the creation of wealth, it was not as good in promoting civilization understood as the growth of every person and the whole person, in Pope Paul's phraseology.' After Nyerere's resignation from political leadership, the collapse of real existing eastern socialism (known as communism), the apparent 'triumph' of the capitalist system, and the emergence of the United States of America http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Exchange Brill

The Dream of Ujamaa After the Collapse of Communism

Exchange , Volume 28 (4): 341 – Jan 1, 1999

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Brill
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© 1999 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0166-2740
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1572-543X
DOI
10.1163/157254399X00276
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Abstract

THE DREAM OF UJAMAA AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM Laurenti Magesa Ujamaa on the Wealth and Civilization of Nations Ujamaa socialism was the socio-political and economic policy carried out in Tanzania under the inspiration and leadership of the then president of the country, Julius K. Nyerere, for almost two decades from 1967 up to about 1985. Nyerere retired in 1985 as president of Tanzania and in 1990 as chairman of the only legal political party at that time, known as CCM (or Chama cha Mapinduzi). As president, Nyerere had resisted pressure from the major western industrialized countries and from their financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to abandon Ujamaa in favour of the 'free market' economic system or liberal capitalism. Essentially, his reasoning was that while liberal capital- ism was efficient at facilitating the creation of wealth, it was not as good in promoting civilization understood as the growth of every person and the whole person, in Pope Paul's phraseology.' After Nyerere's resignation from political leadership, the collapse of real existing eastern socialism (known as communism), the apparent 'triumph' of the capitalist system, and the emergence of the United States of America

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Published: Jan 1, 1999

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