Revolution from Above
Colin Legum, 1 April 1982
The Ethiopian Revolution
by Fred Halliday and Maxine Molyneux.
Verso, 304 pp., £15, January 1982,0 86091 043 1 Show More
by Fred Halliday and Maxine Molyneux.
Verso, 304 pp., £15, January 1982,
“... than they are to fastening a Marxist system on a reluctant country. However, as Halliday and Molyneux are at pains to point out, conflict between a revolutionary central government and ethnic or regional forces is common in modern social upheavals, as indeed it was in earlier bourgeois revolutions. The French Revolution was strongly centripetal; Cromwell ... ”