The following article was published by the European office of the
Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party in Rome in 1980. It appeared in
the first and only issue of theEthiopian Marxist Review, an
English-language periodical the EPRP’s foreign section hoped would
engage the world left. In 1980 that left was then largely (and
unfortunately) singing the praises of Mengistu Haile Mariam, the
military chief of state and leader of theDerg, the military organization
that had governed Ethiopia since the revolutionary year of 1974. Sadly,
theReviewtook several years to become a reality after it was first
envisioned by the Party, and by 1980 the EPRP’s resistance to the
military regime was in deep retreat, having suffered massive loss of
life during the period of the so-called Red Terror. The EMR received
little exposure and made little impact. At its 1984 Congress held in a
remote rural area of Ethiopia, EPRP would in fact largely jettison
explicit Marxism-Leninism as a guiding ideology. But the contents of
theRevieware fascinating, well-written, and largely devoid of the
stilted prose and dogmatism that marred so much leftist literature in
the 1970s.
https://cosmonaut.blog/2020/09/09/the-struggle-for-democracy-in-africa-by-iyasou-alemayehu/
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