Patrick Bond and Masimba Manyanya: Zimbabwe's Plunge: Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism and the Search for Social Justice.(Book review)

Publication: Capital & Class

Publication Date: 22-JUN-06

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Patrick Bond and Masimba Manyanya Zimbabwe's Plunge: Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism and the Search for Social Justice Merlin Press/University of Natal Press/Weaver Press, 2003, xx + 304 pp. ISBN 0-850-36517-1(pbk) 15.95 [pounds sterling]

'Zimbabwe' has been a familiar name in the press in recent years, due to the country's economic and financial meltdown and the seizure of white farmers' land by the veterans of the war of liberation, linked to the ruling Zanu-PF party. The two processes are not unconnected, as this book demonstrates. In it, Bond and Manyanya offer a political--economic analysis of Zimbabwe's history that seeks to uncover the linkages between financial and political phenomena. They place this history in the context of a broader logic--the logic of 'uneven development' in the periphery of world capitalism 'after a quarter-century of organic crisis and two decades of exposure to intensifying "globalisation"' (p. 113). Zimbabwe is now in crisis, for the resolution of which a process of social and economic change entailing 'deglobalisation' beyond nationalism and neoliberalism is necessary....

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