Culture, Liberation Movements, and Human Development

Abstract

From Pages 3 and 4:

"In this essay I wish to continue the traditions of inquiry pursued by Cabral and Todorov. My concern is with how those who wish to achieve liberation can move forward ? based upon their thoughts and actions ? without being trapped in new forms of domination and oppression. In this analysis, I shall first turn my attention to circumstances where the quest for liberation can lead to the entrapment of people in new forms of subjection. Among the liberation traps I shall explore are: (1) the revolution trap, (2) independence and the sovereignty trap, (3) democracy, size problems, and coalition traps, and (4) national liberation and the security trap. There are others, but a consideration of the above is sufficient for an understanding that the struggle for liberation is plagued by a variety of traps. In the concluding section of this paper, I shall further consider the nature of the struggle that is necessary to achieve liberation."