Totalitarian State

Abstract

Mondlane, wrote his widow when Mozambique had been independent for over a decade, would not have agreed with decisions taken after independence, ‘many of them allied to the violation of the idea of the right to individual freedom’. She believes that Mondlane ‘would have debated how to balance this freedom with what would benefit the whole group’. There was, however, one idea that would not have been violated under Mondlane —‘that ideology is not more important than people’.³⁴