Claude Meillassoux in Mozambique
Regarding a letter to Marcelino dos Santos
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-864X.2024.1.45089Keywords:
Mozambique, Meillassoux, Marcelino dos Santos, economic anthropology, marxismAbstract
Claude Meillassoux, the founder of French economic anthropology, and Marcelino dos Santos, an important leader of the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), met in Paris in the 1950s, when they were studying with the Africanist Georges Balandier. In 1977, the year of Meillassoux’s first visit to Mozambique, the relationship between the two was renewed, although this time under a critical and controversial aspect. In that year Frelimo became a “Marxist-Leninist” vanguard party and prepared to create a series of organizations for the establishment of “popular power” and socialism. Meillassoux became an attentive observer of this process. This article reconstructs the vicissitudes of his trip, promoted by the French-Mozambican Academic Cooperation and by the African Studies Center of the Eduardo Mondlane University. Immediately after his visit, Meillassoux sent a letter to Marcelino dos Santos. The letter conveyed a severe critique of the directions the Mozambican revolution was taking. Finally, the article analyzes the anthropological and political implications of the letter.
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