Izwe Lethu, We are in danger of answering this question raised very superficiouly. This question properly answered, has an inherent posibility of killing sacred cows. Questioning the assumed obvious can open new knowledge. We must not fall into a trap of teaching instead of critically engaging each other on this matter. We must know that the National Commissar does not ask this question from a point of limited reading but from a point of observing contriduction in language of party members. The crisis of party members moving to ideological incomparable parties (like DA) is signaling shortfalls in the party.
There are few points that should agreed upon as bases of verifying solidness of our ideology: 1. Material dailatics is great analysis methodology. 2. The fact that revolution is science that can and should learned and mastered. 3. Personal experiance is limited or mislead method of political, social and economic analysis. 4. Revolutionaries learn from other revolutions, attempted revolutions and characters. 5. World operates within undesirable economic and social structure. If we agree on the above, then, the challenge changes from disagreement on substance to our ability to divorce dogma and obsession with contributors to pool of knowledge (science of revolution). Our ideology is not about Marx or Sobukwe but about designing and articulating the future society our party desires. It is about anticipating challenges that will prevent the manifestation of our vision and defining step to make it happens. The Basic Document and Africanist Manifesto in particular does the above. Time and growth are now challenging the document. We need addition with complex document to expand on basic document. I must indicate that as much as I appreciate Sobukwe's contribution, the party cannot depend of speeches directed to various audiance for its ideological direction. We must read other parties documents but we must adopt our world view. World view inform by contrete conditions and lessons from other revolutions Sbusiso Xaba -- Sending your posting to [email protected] Unsubscribe by sending an email to [email protected] You can also visit http://groups.google.com/group/payco Visit our website at www.mayihlome.wordpress.com
