Pan Africanism rests on three pillars. These are: 1.African nationalism;
2. Scientific socialism and 3. Continental unity
PAC characterises white domination in these terms : Political Oppression
(racist colonial subjugation and land dispossession), Economic
Exploitation (through a capitalist system of primitive accumulation and
proletarianisation by reducing Africans to wage labourers) and Social
Degradation (robbing Africans of their cultures, denying their history
and identity as a people with own humanity and civilisation).
A resolution to these starts with ending political oppression where
Africans establish a majority democratic rule with the toilers and
labourers, the "wretched of the earth" (the vast majority of the African
illiterate and semiliterate African masses) being the backbone of this
rule where they impose a dictatorship over the erstwhile oppressive
white settler bourgeoisie and indigenous African comprador stratum who
have become imperialist sidekicks and neo-colonialist agents)to together
with the revolutionary African intellectuals and peasantry effect a
socialist reconstruction programme for land recovery through an agrarian
revolution and collectivise the land, socialise the commanding heights
of the economy and put them in public hands and efectively eliminate all
forms of exploitation, including remnants of feudalism and oppresion of
women true patriachal relations. Note this rule by Africans is only
possible with the smashing of the bourgeois settler-colonial state and
is opposed to the current African liberal bourgeois democracy of the ANC
and its Alliance partners. In the PAC we talk about a New Democracy
which results in the expulsion of the imperialist and neo-colonialist
forces whose content is socialism.
Inevitably, the use of class (the relation to state power and the means
of production), in this instance, featues prominently when African
people are being put in the position of the ruling class and in control
of their land and other means of production.
Regards
Mawande Jack
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: [PAYCO] My heart yearns for PAC that is no
more]]
Thanks noble son for your response.
Can you please anyone explain to me to about Pan Africanism as ideology
without dilute of Marxism-Leninism. Cause my understanding of classless
society is in communism. You cannot become a nationalist and socialist
at the same time.
Africanist cause
Lubabalo
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> Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: [PAYCO] My heart yearns for PAC that is no
more]]
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Thu, August 20, 2009 08:09
> To:
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> Son of the soil,
>
> I think it is important for us as comrades to be frank with each other
> as it is critical for all Pan Africanist to make time and take you
> step by step on the following:
> # African Nationalism
> #Africanism
> #Development of Pan Africanism
> -In the Diaspora
> -Afrika
> -Southern Africa and Azania
> #Formation of the ANC
> #Formation of the ANCYL
> #Adoption of the 1949 Programme of Action #Defiance Campaign
> #Africanist Movement #Adoption of the Freedom Charter #Formation of
> the the PAC #Concept of Africanist Socialist democratic society
> #Scientific Socialism #African Socialism/Ujaama #PAC VS SA Communist
> Party/Capitalist Party #Ideas and views of Pan Africanist Founding
> Fathers -African Nationalism -Africanism -African Socialism
> -Scientific Socialism -Communism -Neo-colonialism -race question
> -Global relations
>
> Without understanding the above in context and critically there is no
> possibility of understanding the ideological and policy differences
> between PAC and ANC,worse there is no possibility of understanding Pan
> Africanism and its relationship with socialism. The PAC did not exist
> on the basis of hate for whites or indians,rest assured son of the
> soil that PAC coined the whole concept of non-racialism. PAC founding
> fathers loved Africa and its people too much that those who lacked
> such love interpreted this to hate for other people. Sobukwe
> understood class struggle and used it to interpret PAC attitude to
> certain classes in society,hence he rejected the so called "Indian
> Merchant" class which was privilleged and identified with the system
> as opposed to the poor working indians who were being exploited and
> classified as sub-humans like the indigenous African people.
>
> Let me assure you son of the soil that the Greatest Pan Aftricanist in
> Africa and world over Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah was a socialist and
> believed in class struggle. Before challenging the whole concept of
> class struggle it is critical to understand it from a Pan Africanist
> perspective. I recommend Class Struggle in Africa by Osagyefo Kwame
> Nkrumah and The Struggle Continues by Nkrumah as well. PAC members
> should learn to find Pan Africanists positions even outside Sobukwe.
> Sobukwe himself use to consider positions taken by Pan Africanists
> leaders elsewhere and adapt them to azanian material conditions.
>
> I am going to make time and engage you and refer you to relevant books
> and pages to understand Pan Africanism in context, then you will find
> answers to your questions. Pan Africanism is the ideology that should
> live among the illiterate and semi-literate,it is unfortunate that
> here in Azania it is the privilege of the educated,we want to change
> that, hence we want a new leadership that will speak and live with the
masses day in day out.
>
> Yours for a classless society
>
> Kwame Ndebele
> PAYCO Secretary General
>
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [Fwd: [PAYCO] My heart yearns for PAC that is no more]
From:
> [email protected] Date: Thu, August 20, 2009 07:27
> To: [email protected]
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>
> Greetings Ma Afrika
>
> Thanks M'Afrika Jack for the information that you have provided to the
> forum. I'm still maintaining my stance in this, in Sobukwe interview i
> found something of wanting to Africans to lead not to be led by
> white/Indian communist. Now to me if that was a case then, ANC and
> SACP is led by blacks. Is it that what he and others wanted?
>
> Secondly what is Pan Africanism ideology? Where it come from? How did
> it come to existence? What is African about it? Every time we say our
> ideology is Pan Africanism? Or is it that we are lying/ deceiving our
> people? Is it about power struggle as we have seen in other parts of
> Africa?
>
> Let me pause for now
> Lubabalo Popo
>>
>> Cde Popo greetings,
>>
>> I am sorry that right now I don't have time to engage you on the
>> issues
> you have raised, but allow me to indicate to you that PAC is socialist
> and it would remain as such for many decades to come. For argument
> sake,even if PAC was not socialist,it had no choice but to be
> socialist to be able to survive and to liberate the masses of our
> people from the neo-colonial vices. Socialism is the future,make no
> mistake son of the soil. If truth is to be told PAC cannot outdo ANC
> and its fly-by-night millionares on the question of capitalism. Class
> struggle is the reality that we cannot runaway from.
>>
>>
>> I know this statement is unfair to you hence,I promise to address
>> this
> topic in detail next time I engage you. Keep well, I must rush....
>>
>> Kwame Ndebele
>> PAYCO SG
>>
>>
>>
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> ---------------------------- Subject: [PAYCO] My heart yearns for PAC
> that is no more From: [email protected]
>> Date: Thu, August 13, 2009 14:38
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>>
>> Greetings Sons and Daughter of the soil
>>
>> It's very sad to hear people claiming to be PAC member pushing class
> struggle at the expense of National Liberator Building. Pan Africanist
> Congress of Azania which was found in 1959 by Sobukwe and others is
> the nationalist organisation not a socialist one nor communist one. We
> are not apologetic to anyone about that. Class struggle is the
> communist term not Africanist for sure. Africanism is the path to Pan
> Africanism, and Socialism is the path to Communism.
>>
>> Allow me to borrow the words of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede " My heart
>> yearn
> for an Africa that is no more. But, I shall labour for a new, free,
> independent and sovereign Africa that shall be respected by nations of
> the world."
>>
>> I remain an Africanist
>> Lubabalo Popo
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