66 SOCIAL SCIENTIST la Emmanuel which consider nations as the historical actors. He proceeds on a class basis. But unfortunately, his class analysis with regard to the Third World remains rather rudimentary. His main guide to it is Mao Zedong's otherwise excellent study "On New Democracy". What is surprising (again) is that he does not use any Soviet scientific source though there are many written on this kind of problems (to mention just a few: Tjagunenko, Pavlov, Bogoslovsky, Uljanovsky, Iskenderov, Simoniya, Tjulpanov). Though Nabudcre sticks to Leninist positions-the proletariat being the leading force and having as main ally the peasant masses, and the need for a professional revolutionary vanguard party (pp 270-272)—he is not convincing in his search for identification of the social forces capable of carrying out the necessary revolution. United National Fronts Nabudcre takes firm stand against ultra-radicalism fashioned after ideas of A G Frank and stresses the necessity for broad united national fronts, including segments of the national bourgeoisie, in the fight against imperialism (pp 276-277). He emphasizes that this kind of alliances must be under the leadership of the proletariat. But at this point he certainly could have uttered a warning against nationalism. Analysing imperialism he correctly rejects the use of the concept of nation as an analytical unit. But the revolutionary strategy touches upon the national question. When national feelings get transformed into nationalistic sentiments it is certainly to the disadvantage of the world revolutionary process. The danger of such (temporary) deformation is not imaginary, as the recent Chinese foreign policy convincingly demonstrates. Unfortunately, as said above, Nabudere docs not want to face certain facts. As far as Nabudere analyses capitalism and imperialism he is very sober and clear. When it comes to the analysis of the "periphery," his approach contains some radicalist elements. According to him there is no development possible whatsoever until imperialism is definitely defeated. Socialist aid for industrialization is of no use (p 243), state enterprises neither. Joint ventures and even nationalization of certain industries bear also no positive effects (p 246). One wonders what then could be done in the Third World until the revolution shall succeed. It might be true in many cases that joint ventures, nationalization of some branches, industrialization with the aid of socialist countries will have as short term effect a strengthening of the neo-