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A Further Comment on the 1971 Uganda Coup

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Irving Gershenberg
Irving Gershenberg
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Livingston College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
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In his recent article in this Journal, X, I, May 1972, Dr Michael F. Lofchie catalogued what he considers to be the major factors contributing to the Uganda coup. In his analysis, Lofchie emphasises President Obote's ‘Move to the Left’ ideology for its threat to the privileged position of the military: ‘The coup of January 1971 was the army's political response to an increasingly socialist régime whose qualitariar, domestic policies posed more and more of a threat to the military's economic privileges.’

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Africana
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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , December 1972 , pp. 638 - 639
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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References

Page 638 note 1 For a fuller discussion of The Common Man's Charter, see Gershenberg, I., ‘Slouching Towards Socialism: Obote's Uganda’, in African Studies Review (East Lansing), XV, 1, 04 1972, pp. 79–95.Google Scholar

Page 638 note 2 ‘Statement by the Soldiers, January 25, 1971’, reprinted in The Birth of the Second Republic (Entebbe, 1975), pp. 26–8.Google Scholar

Page 638 note 3 In any case, there is little evidence to support Lofchie's contention that the military inevitably suffers a diminution in its economic and social position in a socialist state as compared with its privileged position in a capitalist state.