Comrade Phillip Copeman
I still maintain PAC is relevant as articulated in the 1959 Pan Africanist Manifesto, the Party mainly lacks the required organisational and political capabilities to launch a political programme and strategy to seize state political power. We must draw a distinction of PAC as a liberation party forming part and advancing the revolutionary Pan Africanist programme to overthrow capitalism and white supremacy. Surely seizure of state political power should be any and all means necessary depending on objective reality and this does not imply that as PAC we should always be obsessed about elections since emancipation of the toiling and downtrodden masses of our people as articulated by the five aims and objectives of the PAC stand as a matter of principle and a daunting political task we should forge. The illiterates and semi-illiterates being the African workers and peasants are the motive force to achieve the Africanist Socialist Democracy, in rebuilding the party, we should focus ourselves as to organisation of this social grouping for total liberation of Africa on a socialist programme. As we speak today, the Roman Catholic Church has no Pope but the agenda and work of the church continues undisturbed for through organisation the church functions and works towards realisation of its objectives, drawing from this lesson the African people need organisation through which the people’s and the party’s will shall prevail, leadership will always from the execution and organisation. We build organisation based on a programme aimed at realisation of an Africanist Socialist Democracy, not the current neo-colonial African oligarchy/comprador bourgeoisie system. Your hype around 2014 national elections are misguided and your desire to occupy the Union Building borders around what Chinweizu describe as natives becoming new masters and perpetuate oppression and exploitation of the African having taking over the seats of the unpopular oppressive and exploiting groups. The hype around elections is also misguided when focus is not based on resolving political and organisational maladies that dwarfed and thwarts PAC’s political and organisational functioning including effectiveness. Always when PAC members are supposed to reflect on the state of the party and plan as to how we should rebuild and reorganise the party, we are being flooded with national elections excitement and hype. 1994, 1999, 2004 and 2009 national elections PAC fared badly and these elections thing has done enough damage, it is time we must sober up and take stock, count losses and focus on what necessary actions we should take to rebuild the PAC. Any public message resonates well when the carriers comes from a solid organisational base and secondly carriers with integrity, Western Cape for example is highly divided. I think its being naïve to speak elections with an ailing party incapable of defending itself and also that PAC has become everything to everyone, this neo-colonial parliamentary election has assimilated the aspirant nationalist bourgeoisie within the party to form part of the oppressive and exploitative system. The neo-colonial parliamentary system has become another form of a pyramid system in which the poor masses are used to vote for few people who will then accumulate wealth and live in luxury while the vast majority of the African people subjected in social degrading living conditions. You have selectively reduced the perspective I advanced to merely land issue as in soil, whilst I summed the historical, political economic and social economic development aspects. There has been a constant narrow approach and contextualisation of the land issue which I do not support as I I summed in my earlier submission. Secondly PAC’s failure on national elections has less to do with the land issue but a lot to do with mainly organisational aspects, political programme and ideological orientation, these three key aspects are dialectically related. Your elections approach fails to appreciate and recognise the political organisation aspects of party. I worked very closely with Cde Ata Kgosana and Cde Mosebjane Malatsi in the PAC National Elections Task Team (NETT) during the 1999 and 2000 elections, also the 2004 and 2005 elections PAC’s National Elections Authority (NEA). Thirdly, you have not made a concrete case about the irrelevance of the land issue, a very elementary argument is that:- 1. houses requires land for erection including creation of residential areas. 2. food production requires land for both crop and stock farming; 3. Job creation requires land for mining and for industrialisation Its surely an argument of settler colonialism that Africans should not bother themselves with the land question, while as Africans we consume what we do not produce and that which we produce we do not consume. Our people must be trained to understand and appreciate that land is a symbol of wealth and a source for the realisation of a right to national self-determination. Remember even Mao deployed cadres of the party to the countryside to drive agrarian revolution and all developed societies advanced agrarian revolution and later coupled it with industrialisation. I find your argument and statistics less convincing! Shango lashu For Pan Africanist revolution not nationalist bourgeoisie conformism and revisionism Nkrumah Raymond Kgagudi From: Philip Copeman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 05 March 2013 11:11 AM To: Nkrumah Raymond Kgagudi Subject: Re: Making The PAC more relevant You have written a very comprehensive argument for the Land issue whcih I dismissed with "Its not relevant". I still beleive that irrelelvancy is the biggest downfall of the Land argument, but there is a also very strongargument, essentially Economics vs Socialogy as to why it is not viable. It will take a few hours to lay it out. Do you need to me to expouse this or can we leave this aside and get on with winning the next elections? 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