Talk:Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front
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ZANU-PF added the "PF" to its name prior to Independence in 1980, and was known as ZANU-PF long before the merger with ZAPU. (Indeed, ZAPU was called PF-ZAPU in the same period.) The text on the page is factually incorrect.
- The link at the bottom that claims to be the official ZANU-PF website is actually an anti ZANU-PF website. I think this is official site but it is down http://www.zanupfpub.co.zw/
Skeeter08865 20:46, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Marxist-Leninist?
I realize that the ZANU believed in Marxism like most other third world liberation movements during the cold war (the MPLA, FRELIMO, FLN, Official IRA, ETA, FSLN, FMLN, ELN, Black Panther Party, Vietminh, Khmer Rouge, even the ANC flirted with the Communists, etc, etc.) But can the ideology of the ZANU - PF really be described even today as Marxist-Leninist? I mean Zimbabwe's economy, aside from being in a total shambles is predominately a market economy. Aside from land reform which entirely benefits ZANU - PF supporters there hasn't been a single attempt since they came to power in 1980 to redistribute wealth or to collectivize anything. I realize that Leninism serves as the model which the ZANU - PF operates on, ie centralized "democracy" or centralism. But do they really see themselves as being Marxists, or even leftwing at all? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.239.32.173 (talk) 22:27, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
- Supported: Before independence ZANU was avowedly Marxist-Leninist, as some of their education materials showed. However, ZANU (PF) governments have never been remotely Marxist-Leninist. In the 1980s they could be described as social-democratic. From the late 1990s, they followed standard IMF structural adjustment policies. Describing their current ideology is probably original research, but I would argue for fascist. Babakathy (talk) 17:33, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot 19:51, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Racists
Maybe someone should put a section in about the racist policys enforced by Mugabe? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.149.175.157 (talk) 10:12, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
