ABSTRACT
Imperialist policy is in its essence hostile to everything connected with the socialist orientation because this kind of development runs counter to the plans of the neocolonialists. As a rule, imperialism and the internal reactionary forces it supports have recourse to especially refined political and subversive actions against those African countries in which the national liberation movement is already proceeding along the non-capitalist path. The economic orientation envisaged by the national liberation movement should lead to a planned economy and increasing state intervention. If the first of these aims did not find a seedbed, everything went much better for the second. Without formally rejecting the need to decentralize, the state centralized the main poles of the market economy in its own hands, despite the executive's doubtful management abilities. As the pre-eminence of Guinea–Bissau became more explicit, the national liberation movement suffered the consequences at the level of political mobilization.
