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and purpose that will generate their well-being and uplift.
The socialism of a liberated territory is subject to a number of
principles if independence is not to be alienated from the people.
CHAPTER 5
When socialism is true to its purpose, it seeks a connection with the
egalitarian and humanist past of the people before their social
evolution was ravaged by colonialism; it seeks from the results of SET THEORETIC TERMS
colonialism those elements (like new methods of industrial
production and economic organization) which can be adapted to O ALERT can positive action be, alert to all negative possi­
bilities, and prompt under the guidance ofan ideology to deal
serve the interest ofthe people; it seeks to contain and prevent the S
spread ofthose anomalies and domineering interests created by the with these possibilities, that the course ofpositive action can
be mapped out in set theoretic terms. For this, a minimum number
capitalist habit of colonialism; it reclaims the psychology of the
of initial symbols are necessary.
people, erasing the 'colonial mentality' from it; and it resolutely
defends the independence and security of the people. In short, Let Pa represent the positive action an individual
socialism recognizes dialectic, the possibility of creation from Na "the negative action in an individual
forces which are opposed to one another; it recognizes the pa "the positive action in a society
creativity ofstruggle, and, indeed, the necessity ofthe operation of na "the negative action a society
forces to any change. It also embraces materialism and translates > "is greater than
this into social terms of equality. < "is less than
g " a territory
(na>pa)g a territory in which negative action is
"
greater than positive action
(pa>na)g a territory in which positive action is
"
greater than negative action
col.g g is a colony
lib.g " g is liberated
"
(l1a) " for all na
(pa) " for all pa
(g) " for allg
:I " there is a
Gi a liberated territory
"
-,). if then
"
+-~ ifand only if
"
D dialectical moment general. It defmes a
"
factor which changes the relation between
pa and na, by converting pa greater than na
to na greater than pa, or vice versa