ABSTRACT
When it seized power in 1978, the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) was quite aware of the fact that a working class had hardly developed in Afghanistan. Accordingly, to make up for this 'deficiency' and to prepare the 'toiling people' for other forms of class struggle, the new regime gave pre-eminence to the ideological class struggle:
Under the specific conditions prevailing inAfghanistan which is a developing nation, the ideological class struggle was given top priority at the initiative of our great leader [1.e. Taraki J and the ideological struggles were greatly emphasized as opposed to the two other forms of socio-economic struggle. (Hafizullah Amin 1979b: 725).
