The South African Communist Party (SACP) combined two decisions that virtually ensured the post-apartheid disaster. 1) It defined its first major goal to be a "national democratic revolution." See the 1984 party constitution and earlier documents. 2) The product of this revolution was to be a "united state of people's power in which the working class will be the dominant force." (Joe Slovo pamphlet, 1988)
Slovo's phrase is a sloppy evasion of the class character of the state. It only remained to fill some characteristics of the capitalist class that would rule upon liberation: some new Black capitalists in the mix, for example. In practice, everyone knew in the decades running up to liberation from apartheid that the SACP was a component of the ANC umbrella with little power of its own. The SACP had no strategy for the working class to become the dominant force. In the era of monopoly capitalism beginning in the latter nineteenth century, the only way working people (workers, peasants, herders) in an area that may or may not be a nation can win real liberation is by achieving dictatorship over all capitalists including national bourgeois and aspiring bourgeois in the ranks like Mr. Ramaphosa. ... No exception is possible for Palestine. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30688): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30688 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/106561139/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
