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11.01 membership
requirements
- 3 for 1950-62,
AC9
- The requirements for
membership in the PDG are payment of dues fixed by the
party and the holding of a membership card.
- 11.02 membership
participation
- 5 for 1950-56,
AC5
- 5 for 1957-62,
AC9
- There are a large number
of party militants who are constantly working for the
party, and there are also a large number of people who
conscientiously attend party meetings and perform
specific activities on behalf of the party. It appears
that during the first two years after independence the
number of militants was as great as the number of
"participants". However, the nationalistic zeal began to
ebb after 1960, although the number of militants was
still large.
- 11.03 material
incentives
- 0 for 1950-56,
AC3
- 1 for 1957-62,
AC3
- Before independence,
membership in the PDG carried no promise of financial
gain. After independence, it appeared that government
positions were given to party workers who did not obtain
elected offices, but it is not clear that this employment
was the main motivational force for many of the
militants. Our consultant, however, reports that few
people get decent jobs without party cards.
- 11.04 purposive
incentives
- 4 for 1950-56,
AC5
- 3 for 1957-62,
AC5
- Most of the militants
seemed motivated by nationalistic zeal with greater
African overtones. This incentive was reduced in
importance during the second party of our
period.
- 11.05
doctrinism
- For 1950-56,
AC1
- 3 for 1957-62,
AC9
- The party doctrine is
embodied in the writings of Sekou Toure. These extensive
writings were a blueprint for all party activity and the
PDG was expected to operationalize the doctrines of
Toure.
- 11.06 personalism
- 0 for 1950-62,
AC3
- The information in the
file ascribes a more or less rational basis to Toure's
leadership, which suggests that whatever charismatic
leadership he exercised over the Guinean people in
general did not serve to motivate party militants in
particular.
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