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v Acknowledgement I am heartily thankful to numerous scholars whose ideas have been used in this book. Their inspiring and incisive ideas and support from the initial to the final level enabled me to develop an understanding of the subject of Socialism as the only viable alternative to rampaging capitalist imperialism, today sanitized as globalization. Some have featured in my bibliography. Those who have not featured in the bibliography should not feel left out intentionally. Three names readily spring to my mind. I am thinking of Samir Amin (our visiting teaching at the Yaounde International Higher School of Journalism in 1974), James Petras and William Robinson. Their ideas litter the entire book and I have virtually become an intellectual clone of them. All those named and unmentioned remain intellectual treasures to me. Lastly, I offer my regards and blessings to all of those who supported me in any respect during the completion of this essay. One of them stands out distinct. He is Dr. Sammy Ngum who drags me out of my slumber whenever I have nothing to show him as my research work for his brutal computer surgery. Tatah Mentan, Minnesota, USA, May 2012. vi ...

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