lating, they formed groups of discontents, ready to act against
the truly revolutionary forces as soon as the first opportunity
appeared.   And when the enemy agents arrived and started looking
for elements to organise against the revolutionary leadership
of FRELIMO, they found a fertile field among these discontents.
This is the explanation of the difficulties that FRELIMO has
had to face during the last two years: contradictions even at
the top level of FRELIMO..."
Thus, at the beginning we had no ideological line:  it was impossible to
formulate an ideology broad enough to emcompass all the different tendencies represented by the various social, political,
economic, religious, cultural groups.  The idea of independence and nationalism was the only thing they had in common-
and in the beginning this seemed sufficient to ensure the
struggle's advance. But with the evolution of the struggle
there developed a new situation. We started having liberated
regions; we had to plan the work of national reconstruction -
production schools, hospitals.
This gave rise to certain problems: How to structure the economy in the
liberated zones? How to organise the school services, the
hospitals? Should we copy the colonialist - capitalist model
which had just been removed, or should we adopt a system based
on the needs and will of the people? The contradictions now
came to the surface.  Those who had come to the revolution to
become wealthy, motivated by their personal interest, wanted
the system to remain the same - we should just expel the
• colonialists, reestablish the structures created by the Portuguese, and take their place in the positions of control.  The
revolutionary comrades took a diametrically opposed position.
They knew that if this happened there was no justification
for the struggle.  Why fight if everything will continue as
before? They wanted a completely different system where all
the vestiges of colonialist and capitalist influence would be
eliminated.  They wanted a system that would really*rserve the
interests of the people and v/hich could never resemble, not
even vaguely, the system of the exploiters and oppressors.
After this, the division became more acute.  A struggle began, between
the groups representing the two lines. And all the problems,
all the difficulties we have had since then are the result of
this division.