Zimbabwe: A Revolution That Lost Its Way? by André Astrow (Used)

Zimbabwe: A Revolution That Lost Its Way? is a compact and competent history of
the war of national liberation in Zimbabwe. More importantly, it is a pertinent
polemic against the 'petty bourgeois' leadership of what was then the struggle
against Rhodesian settler rule, and is now the Zimbabwean state. Unfortunately,
Astrow's book fails on the latter, crucial, count. The petty bourgeoisie is blamed for
the betrayal of Zimbabwe's masses, but never analysed with any clarity.
The fundamental flaw in Astrow's book is shared by other 'workerist'
perspectives on national liberation (see Davies & O'Meara in ROAPE 29 for a
critique), the post-colonial state and petty bourgeois politicians. Such stances are
strangely contradictory.

Condition: Good, pages yellowed