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Irreconcilable class divisions and harsh economic exploitation create misery for the urban and rural workers. Yet the solutions of the leading Senegalese writer/politicians do not exceed the petty bourgeois limitations of nationalism and reformism.","Nationalism, as an instrument for change or liberation, in all of its manifestations, from the pseudo-nationalism of Africa's "yes-men" (Leopold Sedar Senghor), conservative cultural nationalism (Birago Diop) and radical cultural nationalism (Cheikh Anta Diop) to Islamic nationalism (Cheikh Hamidou Kane) and populism (Ousmane Sembene), is in direct conflict with social revolution and the final overthrow of capitalism. This observation, unadorned, unvarnished, and historically misunderstood, forms the basic theme of this work.","While each variety of nationalism has its progressive aspects, nationalists will inevitably end up on the opposite side of the barricades, opposing revolutionary socialists. 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