As a result, Tanzania has experienced all the problems which such
bureaucratic machinery bring to the workers in capitalist countries
even after the socialist Arusha Declaration.

The introduction of workers participation in Tanzania can thus
be seen as an attempt at removing bureaucratism in the
management of the peoples’ institutions. In Tanzania where the
goal is to build socialism, workers’ participation aims at achieving
the following objectives.

First, workers' participation aims at giving the working class
power thus solving the contradictions which exist between the
management and the workers. There should be no distinction be-
tween the manager and the managed. All must be regarded as
workers belonging to the same enterprise. This point is em-
phatically underscored by the President when he says,

In particular, the top management must have an attitude which regards
the workers and the lower levels of management as partners in a com-
mon enterprise, and not just as tools like the machines they work with. 5.

Socialist ownership entails also the integration of the workers in
the running of the socialised sector. Hence socialisation of the
major means of production cannot be complete unless the working
class is given power to run these socialised institutions. The
socialisation of the managerial function is a corally to the
socialisation of the means of production if socialism is to have any
meaning at all. This is why workers participation has been in-
troduced in only public enterprise employing ten workers or more
because of the belief that there cannot be participation in decision-
making by the workers without real control of the enterprises.
Socialism is thus peoples’ control of the major means of produc-
tion and the peoples’ control of the running and managing of these
commanding heights.

The second objective which is also tied with the first one is that
workers' participation allows peoples’ involvement in deciding the
affairs of their lives is central to Mwalimu’s thinking on develop-
ment. In his paper, ‘Freedom and Development’, Mwalimu argues
that any development must be development of the people by the
people themselves hence emphasising their participation in the
whole processes of development.

The people through the established institutions must make their own
decisions on how best they will build their future life.”

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