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If Marxism is a universal scientific theory, how does it overcome its own syntactical as well as semantic limitations? How does it relate, methodologically, to vernacular languages, understood in the analytical, political sense?

— Archibald Boyce Monwabisi Mafeje

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It is competition for this type of access which propels African Governments towards a one-party state.

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