Pallo Jordan. Lusaka, February 1990.
“Has Socialism Failed?” is the intriguing title Comrade Joe
Slovo has given to a discussion pamphlet published under the imprint of
‘Umsebenzi’, the quarterly newspaper of the SACP. The reader is advised at the
outset that these are Slovo’s individual views, and not those of the SACP.
While this is helpful it introduces a note of uncertainty regarding the
pamphlet’s authority. The pamphlet itself is divided into six parts, the first
five being an examination of the experience of the ‘socialist countries’, and
the last, a look at the SACP itself.
