How Socialism in the Villages Went Wrong
Instead of imposing collectivization from above, Julius Nyerere tried to build a rural socialism based on the values of Tanzania’s villages.

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The most pressing condition that many a builder of socialism has historically had to contend with has not been capitalism but a peasant-dominated society. Had he been a doctrinaire Marxist, Julius Nyerere — Tanzania’s leader from before its independence from Britain in 1961 to well into the 1980s — may have looked at his country […]