Article: Long Walk to Freedom.(Brief Article)

THIS autobiography may not "electrify the world," as its publisher promises, but it should startle readers who expected to find Nelson Mandela's leftist credo transmogrified by recent experience. The world's premier freedom fighter still sees in Marxism "the simplicity and generosity of the golden rule," buttressed by "the scientific underpinnings of dialectical materialism," and acclaims it as "offering both a searchlight illuminating the dark night of racial oppression and a tool that could be used to end it." Revealed here is a politician still open to the possibility that democracy might "be best expressed by a one-party system" and an Afrocentrist who thinks that ...

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