For example, the term “structural” used to be an integral part of the Left lexicon. While Right-wing bourgeois theory wanted third world countries merely to “leave things to the market”, the Left in the third world had always opposed such market solutions on the grounds that the problem in these countries was “structural”; their structures, it had argued, had to be changed, above all through land reforms including land redistribution.

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