Louis, Thank you for the extraordinarily enlightening disquisition on post-independence Algerian political economy. Has Samir Amin written anything specifically on this subject ? Your analysis sounds very much like what I imagine Amin's would sound like. At 05:54 AM 9/30/97 -0700, you wrote: >There has never been such a thing as a purely proletarian party with a >purely revolutionary program and the FLN of Algeria was no >exception ... John Gulick Ph. D. Candidate Sociology Graduate Program University of California-Santa Cruz (415) 643-8568 [EMAIL PROTECTED]