Volume 23, Number 14 · September 16, 1976
Horror in Uganda I: Amin's Subjects
By Denis Hills
Politics and Class Formation in Uganda
by Mahmood Mamdani
Monthly Review Press, 339 pp., $16.50
In his carefully researched and closely argued book, using neo-Marxist analytical methods and categories Mahmood Mamdani traces the formation of those classes and subdivisions of classes in Uganda—the 'proletariat,' 'kulaks,' 'petty bourgeoisie,' 'feudal landlords,' and so on—which during the first decade of its independence, from 1962 to 1972, achieved a measure of political organization. The political events of that decade he explains according to 'the historically created contradiction and struggle between the classes.'
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