ABSTRACT
Political change in the principle of racial exclusion, even if it should take the seemingly evolutionary form of progressive admission to the franchise, would constitute revolutionary change. More particularly since many white settlers would immediately project the qualified franchise, and the demographic ratio of the races, into a plural society under African domination, and no doubt many African political leaders would do the same. The dialectic between the individuating interracial processes and the collective racial processes is clearly charted in the many South African apartheid laws that seek to reverse trends towards non-racial integration. This is of special interest because South Africa is the most highly industrialized of the African territories, and it is often assumed that industrialization will encourage change towards democracy. It might be approached more realistically in terms of the degree of violence or in terms of policies that might diminish the violence of political change.
