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The United States and North Africa
If it is hard to see the party breaking apart from within, another danger faces it, that of withering away through indir ference. To qualify this, it should be said that this is not an immediate danger and that the neo-Destour, more successfully than most parties, has crossed the bridge from being a revolu- tionary force directing national energies toward a clearly de- fined goal to playing the role of a formally organized political party supporting a government which overshadows it and has pre-empted many of its functions. There are at least three prob- lems here: one is the difficulty the party has in recruiting new members and maintaining interest at local cell levels; a second is the diffuse nature of the party structure, which was desirable when flexibility and the capacity to survive political repression was important but is not now adequate to the needs of a state which feels it must control and direct a complex socioeconomic battle on many fronts; and a third is the result of having many talented party members in government jobs which inevitably take all their energy. Certainly a crisis in party-government relations has been smoldering for several years, and now there is an incipient crisis in the popular response to the party. Efforts to solve the first by reinforcing central authority over regional party federations do not seem to have been too successful, and as to the second, it is notorious that the party is unable to sumn- mon up mass enthusiasm; that is a task which has to be left to the magic of the presidential appeal. It is too early to say that there is a crisis of generations in Tunisia, but it looks as if the next five years or so will determine whether the elan that has so far carried the country along can be maintained as power moves into the hands of another age group. It is not easy to sum up political nuances in Tunisia. The state is paternalistic and verges on authoritarianism without openly espousing totalitarian methods. Up to now it has been a relatively free country without much sense of oppression; almost anything could be criticized save Bourguiba, and if criticism did not gec. vary for neither did it bring dowo more |
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