Whose state? State and capitalist development in Nigeria
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- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Review of African Political Economy in Review of African Political Economy
- Vol. 9 (23)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03056248208703487
Abstract
General issues raised by the author's two previous contributions to this Review,in Nos.19 and 22. are here applied to an analysis of the character of the Nigerian state and the nature of its interrelationships with capital — foreign, local and capital‐in‐general. Oversimplifications that blame ‘under‐development’ on international capital working through a straight neo‐colonial state, and those that see a national bourgeoisie able to use state power against imperialism to promote national capitalist development are rejected as at best part‐truths. The state is seen as also and primarily an instrument for promoting the conditions for accumulation for capital in general. Further specification of the nature of the state depends on an analysis of the class struggle such activities inevitably involve, in their particular Nigerian context.Keywords
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