NOTE 61 socialism. After independence has been won, the struggle does not stop; not only will it continue-it must. The true and long-term objective of the struggle, after all, is the elimination of exploitation of man by man, which does not come about with national independence. The stage of the bourgeois democratic revolution must be transformed into the struggle for socialism; class contradictions then become paramount. Indeed, the two stages are parts of one continuous process. Socialists are generally given, by the Zimbabwean people, a more serious hearing than defenders of other ideologies. Even aspiring capitalists within the national movement for liberation and independence find that they have to call themselves ^socialists". One discovers such dissemblers by both their practice and their intellectual opposition to the concept of class struggle. As history teaches us, if true socialists are not dominant in a national movement, the regime formed after independence by that national movement becomes an integral part of the international imperialist network. It will be neocoloaialist. The people's struggle for true liberation will have been co-opted and diverted for some time. The socialists, progressives and other patriots have to co-ordinate their efforts and work hard to prevent the people's struggle for true and revolutionary liberation from being hijacked by imperialism, and to ensure that the continuous revolutionary process through class struggle is not mischan-nelled to neocolonialism. The enemy can turn his defeat into a victory through his machinations and manipulations if there is complacency among the revolutionaries. Neocolonialism is imperialist co-option of a people's struggle. It is reactionary forces turning defeat into their victory. But like all other imperialist victories they are purely temporary. Shape of Compromise to Come? The white-settler ruling minority throughout the history ofRhodesia has, from time to time, tried to reach a compromise with the forces of African nationalism. When the going gets tough, the settlers try to compromise, usually with the encouragement of Britain and her allies who have had greater experience with the struggle of the colonial peoples. But each time the compromise is found to be a stratagem to co-opt the national struggle or cause confusion between, on one hand the petty-bourgeois leadership—-ever ready to compromise—and on the other the vigilant masses of the people. One finds that most elements in the African leadership ideologically favour compromise with the settler rulers and alliance with imperialism. After all, the social system advocated by these elements embodies the same ideology as that of enlightened imperialists. It is capitalism minus racism. They would like capitalism to be more flexible so that they could be part of it, without being discriminated against. They want capitalist multi-racialism. Or, to put into their mouths a question which is the general concept in the minds of the more right-wing petty-bourgeois militants within the national movements: ^If the