This study questions conventional wisdom about the nature and
outcome of the South African conflict. Avoiding both wishful
thinkiong and mere moralizing, Heribert Adam and Hermann Giliomee
critically examine the applicability of such concepts as
colonialism, fascism, and class exploitation cherished by the Left,
and the notion of pluralism and identity on the political Right. In
contrast to the liberal focus, they find the roots of the South
African predicament not in ideological racism or prejudiced
Calvinism but in the entrenchment of Afrikaner power and privilege.
The potent force was historically mobilized against both black
competitors and imperial foreign capital. Adam and Giliomee analyze
the political economy of ethnic patronage in the bureaucratic
expansion of apartheid administration and state capitalism. They
trace both the socio-historical background and the ideologies
behind changing in-group perceptions. The mechanisms by which
Afrikanerdom maintains its crucial unity are evaluated against the
cleavages within a ruling oligarchy in crisis. Coercion proves
increasingly insufficient against politicized victims of
traditional domination.Therefore, the search for a new legitimacy
through inter-ethnic alliances characterizes the internal debate on
political alternatives. The authros explore the limits of such
co-optation strategies and assess the preconditions for federalism
in an all-out confrontation.
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