Volume 28, Number 1 · February 5, 1981
Zimbabwe: The Takeover
By Xan Smiley
Before he became prime minister of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe was a Marxist. At least, he insisted he was—not just because he needed arms from the East. His nationalist rival, Joshua Nkomo, got bigger and better weaponry from the USSR without ever affirming a Marxist belief.
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