[ClearCase_guy]

like many young intellectual radicals of that period I was eager to see Nyerere's experiment in a 'Third Way' African socialism at first hand

I'm waiting for someone to write about 'Third Way' free-market capitalism. Why don't they? Perhaps because capitalism is capitalism and it is the First Way. And socialism is socialism, and it is the Second Way.

This whole Third Way socialism is like "new and improved Nazi genocide -- we've made it more palatable!!" It's not good, and fiddling with the name won't help.

[jalisco555]

I remember back when I was in college in the mid '70s I read an article about the Ujaamas in Tanzania. Of course, the article was full of stuff about the happy peasants working together to build a bright, shining future under the benevolent guidance of the great leader. Of course, this experiment in "Third Way" socialism ended the same was as it's Second Way, Stalinist, model.