Uganda, April 21 -- If we are to contend that the National Resistance Movement (NRM) was a Marxist organisation, we must concede that it has not failed as completely as we think it has.

Please, stay with me on this.

When Karl Marx wrote The German Ideology (1846), he viewed the state as a creature of the bourgeois economic interest.

Years later, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin offered tomaytos for Marx's tomahtos by defining the state as an organ of class domination.

Marx, however, believed that the "backward" economic conditions in Russia were unsuited to the orthodox Marxist theory of communist revolution. Lenin demurred and that is why we have Marxist-Leninism.

Mao Zedong also deviated by fomenting a peasants' uprising instead of a worker's...