---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Building a movement for socialist change From: "Linda Ndebele" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, June 29, 2009 14:42 To: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Revolutionary Greetings moAfrika Jack!!! Son of the soil, your concern on lack of ideological cohesion and understanding in the party is shared by PAYCO leadership and membership as a whole. Lets indicate from the word go that we subscribe to Pan Africanism as expoused by Kwame Nkrumah, Lumumba and Sobukwe. We strongly believe that the PAC needs ideologically grounded Pan Africanist to be able to acheive its objectives as a revolutionary Pan Africanist movement. Ideoligical Clarity Your call for ideological clarity is so critical at this juncture as we make efforts to rebuild and reposition our party. All efforts to revive the party must be founded and grounded on Pan Africanism. Pan Africanism is our compass and guiding philosophy,therefore must inform all our efforts step by step. Having said that I also strongly believe that we should understand Pan Africanism from its universal concept and understand its key objects. We need to understand Pan Africanism beyond PAC and Sobukwe. We also need to practicalise Pan Africanism,let it provide practical solutions to the day to day crisis of our people. The core objective of Pan Africanism is to liberate Africa and African people from colonialism,imperialism,neo-colonialism,degradation,exploitation and all kinds of oppression. It is therefore extremely important for all party members to be educated on Pan Africanism broadly,from its historical context to post independence struggles. We should utilise this platform and many others to educate each other on ideology. Lets also engage each other in a robust manner where we disagree on ideological matters to be able to converge our ideas assisted by our ideological standing. For startes it is key to read Africa Must unite by Kwame Nkrumah. I will also recommend to all Pan Africanist to subscribe to New African for a Pan Africanist perspective on current political and social issues. Sentimentalism I think it is of critical importance and for the good of our party to discourage sentimentalism and fundamentalism from party members. We should regard our leaders including Sobukwe as people who had a contribution to make in our revolution and had ideas to offer which was relevent to the time and period they lived in,but we should dare not use them and their ideas to blackmail and block new ideas. We should discourage comrades who are stucked on 1959 politics and have never moved,from pulling all of us to the same ditch. We should build on ideas and successess made by our founding fathers. I continue to reject the tendency to heroworship individual leaders over and above the party. The tendency by some amongst us to create an impression that they have made more contribution than others must be discouraged as it is unrevolutionary. We should all learn to humble ourselves to our Pan Africanist cause. There is no one who is a better member or who loves PAC better than the rest of us,all of us have a contribution to make in the revolution. Socialist Line We should not be ashamed to be socialist and to proclaim scientific socialism in the PAC. The PAC is a socialist party and its founding fathers were socialist too. The PAC on its founding documents including the Basic Document and the Constitution adopted socialism as its socio-economic solution to the social and economic difficulties facing the masses of our people. Socialism is not alien in the PAC and should not be treated as such. It is unfortunate that for the past decade PAC has shunned socialism and created an impression that socialism is the enermy of our revolutionary party. Anyone who is opposed to socialism cannot be a member of the PAC as socialism is established and entrenched in the party's founding objectives. Pan Africanism is not opposed to socialism,infact Pan Africanist leaders adopted socialism as the only viable solution to Africa's economic and social problems. I also recommend the following books: 1.. African socialism or socialist Africa by Dr A. Babu 2.. Class struggle in Africa by Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah 3.. The struggle continues by Kwame Nkrumah 4.. Conakry Years by Kwame Nkrumah Nkrumah is thee authority on the relevance of socialism to Pan Africanism, and on the relationship between Pan Africanism and socialism. Convention We cannot afford not to hold the National Convention,but I agree with you that we need to address the ideological differences. I propose that we find a creative way of addressing this important aspect within the convention. I also understand that there would be continous engagements and workshops leading to the Convention therefore we should utilize those structures to ensure ideological harmony and unity. I propose that a detailed paper on Pan africanism and its relevance be crafted to start debates and intellectual discourses within the party. I think it is not feasible to have an ideological conference at this juncture as we approach the Convention, Policy Conference and Congress,but we can create creative ways to attend to this key aspect of party building before or at Convention itself. Part of the things we expect the convention to deal with are: 1) matters of Ideology, (2)to proclaim and accept socialism and (3)to adopt a revolutionary programme of action. PAC must be ready to govern NOW. Conclusion PAYCO appreciates your conviction on Pan Africanism and your approval of our actions and programmes. We appreciate as well your initiatives to conduct political classes,that task is key and fundamental to all of us. We expect suggestions from you and many party veterans on the creative ways of achieving Ideological oneness. Yours in socialist revolution. Kwame Ndebele PAYCO Secretary General 0720682881 Visit. www.mayihlome.wordpress.com ------------------------------------------- South Africas premier free email service - www.webmail.co.za ------------------------------------------------------------------ For super low premiums, click here http://home.webmail.co.za/dd.pwm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Groups "Pan Africanist Youth Congress of Azania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/payco Visit our website at www.geocities.com/paycoonline //panafricanist.blogspot.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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Revolutionary Greetings moAfrika
Jack!!!
Son of the soil, your concern on lack
of ideological cohesion and understanding in the party is shared by PAYCO
leadership and membership as a whole. Lets indicate from the word go that we
subscribe to Pan Africanism as expoused by Kwame Nkrumah, Lumumba and Sobukwe.
We strongly believe that the PAC needs ideologically grounded Pan Africanist to
be able to acheive its objectives as a revolutionary Pan Africanist
movement.
Ideoligical
Clarity
Your call for ideological clarity is so critical at
this juncture as we make efforts to rebuild and reposition our party. All
efforts to revive the party must be founded and grounded on Pan Africanism. Pan
Africanism is our compass and guiding philosophy,therefore must inform all our
efforts step by step. Having said that I also strongly believe that we should
understand Pan Africanism from its universal concept and understand its key
objects. We need to understand Pan Africanism beyond PAC and Sobukwe. We also
need to practicalise Pan Africanism,let it provide practical solutions to the
day to day crisis of our people. The core objective of Pan Africanism is to
liberate Africa and African people
from colonialism,imperialism,neo-colonialism,degradation,exploitation and
all kinds of oppression. It is therefore extremely important for all party
members to be educated on Pan Africanism broadly,from its historical
context to post independence struggles. We should utilise this platform and many
others to educate each other on ideology. Lets also engage each other in a
robust manner where we disagree on ideological matters to be able to converge
our ideas assisted by our ideological standing. For startes it is key to read
Africa Must unite by Kwame Nkrumah.
I will also recommend to all Pan Africanist to
subscribe to New African for a Pan Africanist perspective on current political and social
issues.
Sentimentalism
I think it is of critical importance and for the
good of our party to discourage sentimentalism and fundamentalism from party
members. We should regard our leaders including Sobukwe as people who had a
contribution to make in our revolution and had ideas to offer which was relevent
to the time and period they lived in,but we should dare not use them and their
ideas to blackmail and block new ideas. We should discourage comrades who are
stucked on 1959 politics and have never moved,from pulling all of us to the
same ditch. We should build on ideas and successess made by our founding
fathers. I continue to reject the tendency to heroworship individual leaders
over and above the party. The tendency by some amongst us to create an
impression that they have made more contribution than others must be
discouraged as it is unrevolutionary. We should all learn to humble
ourselves to our Pan Africanist cause. There is no one who is a better
member or who loves PAC better than the rest of us,all of us have a contribution
to make in the revolution.
Socialist Line
We should not be ashamed to be socialist and to
proclaim scientific socialism in the PAC. The PAC is a socialist party and its
founding fathers were socialist too. The PAC on its founding documents including
the Basic Document and the Constitution adopted socialism as its socio-economic
solution to the social and economic difficulties facing the masses of our
people. Socialism is not alien in the PAC and should not be treated
as such.
It is unfortunate that for the past decade PAC has
shunned socialism and created an impression that socialism is the enermy of our
revolutionary party. Anyone who is opposed to socialism cannot be a member of
the PAC as socialism is established and entrenched in the party's founding
objectives.
Pan Africanism is not opposed to socialism,infact
Pan Africanist leaders adopted socialism as the only viable solution to Africa's
economic and social problems.
I also recommend the following books:
Nkrumah is thee authority on the
relevance of socialism to Pan Africanism, and on the relationship
between Pan Africanism and socialism.
Convention
We cannot afford not to hold the National
Convention,but I agree with you that we need to address the ideological
differences. I propose that we find a creative way of addressing this important
aspect within the convention. I also understand that there would be continous
engagements and workshops leading to the Convention therefore we should utilize
those structures to ensure ideological harmony and unity. I propose that a
detailed paper on Pan africanism and its relevance be crafted to start
debates and intellectual discourses within the party. I think it
is not feasible to have an ideological conference at this juncture as we
approach the Convention, Policy Conference and Congress,but we can create
creative ways to attend to this key aspect of party building before or at
Convention itself.
Part of the things we expect
the convention to deal with are:
1) matters of
Ideology,
(2)to proclaim and accept
socialism and
(3)to adopt a revolutionary programme
of action.
PAC must be ready to
govern NOW.
Conclusion
PAYCO appreciates your conviction on Pan Africanism
and your approval of our actions and programmes. We appreciate as well your
initiatives to conduct political classes,that task is key and fundamental to all
of us. We expect suggestions from you and many party veterans on the creative
ways of achieving Ideological oneness.
Yours in socialist revolution.
Kwame Ndebele
PAYCO Secretary General
0720682881
Visit. www.mayihlome.wordpress.com
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