When we planned our country's economic development, we had the strategic objective of our Revolution in mind. It was not planned for economic development [to be] solely an end in itself. There are some who have forgotten that the sole basis of our revolutionary struggle was the ideology and politics which we follow.
"Integrated Rural Development: The Ethiopian Experience and the Debate". Book by J. M. Cohen, 1987.
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