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Show 48 Perhaps early stages ownership the the most of the Revolution of rural lands. This Ethiopian people. ordered swept and radical, was proclamation As Keller put it: "In had government. Its impact tenure the defense of the reforms development process." system as well The other (P As) was in some sense however, with to ensure as measure taken developments subsequent collective, the land reform had mass participation during on of the in the impact profound July 26, was the 1975. The Proclamation also lasting Derg brought further ideological clarification to the (kebeles), example, in one 1976, the Derg issued the PNDR program, the was guiding ideology was Manyezewal 1992). Derg Derg. years, the Building socialism "revolutionary the first year of the of April 1976. neutralizing its for self-determination and provisions Program of the National Democratic Revolution (PNDR) and agricultural of the December 1974 Declaration of Socialism. For (Eshetu were the country. In the northern across called for the establishment of Urban Dwellers Associations Leninism. public It terminated feudal relations of nationalization of urban land and extra houses In for the it ended absentee landlordism and tenancy. The Proclamation also called for the formation of Peasant Associations institutional in the fell swoop, the bases of feudal power minimal. In the southern part of the country, effect, since Derg made all rural land the collective property of one 194). p. of the measure proclamation to provide not, however, uniform part of the country, where the land was revolutionary, social and economic bases for the Haile Selassie provided was far the March 1975 away" (Keller 1988, production, which by of the government clearly stated In late the civilian left who as the According to the henceforth to be Marxism long-term goal of the government 1979, the Derg effectively consolidated power by were aspiring to establish a "People's Democratic |
