|
|
Article: Marxism almost certain to collapse in Mozambique
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 31, 1986
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright (null) Chicago Sun-Times. (Hide copyright information)
|
The death of President Samor Machel of Mozambique in a plane
crash last week is almost certain to cause the collapse of
African-style Marxism in that southern African nation, and the lack
of a strong leader to succeed him will also have a marked effect on
events in neighboring South Africa.
As a guerrilla leader, Machel led his countrymen to independence
from Portugal in 1975. Since then, as head of the Front for the
Independence of Mozambique (Frelimo), the country's only political
party, the tall, bearded, slender black man struggled to replace the
feudal colonialism of the Portuguese with a classless society and a
nationalized agricultural and industrial economy.
It is not ...