Patrick, thanks a lot. Onward indeed! Fred
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Patrick Bond <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought it was a very fine piece, Fred... but one of my trusted > comrades isn't so sure: > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: RE: What is the ANC and Where is the Left in South Africa? Date: > Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:40:13 +0200 From: Dale T McKinley > <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > > > > > > A useful, summarised compendium of a range of critical analyses of the > ‘transition’. **** > > ** ** > > However, Chris’ presentation of the ‘historic’ character of the > ANC(Alliance) and thus explanation for what has happened since the > early-mid 1990s is somewhat shallow – completely missing out on the very > real class formation and thus accompanying societal and organisational > politics within the ANC-Alliance … thus leading him to ‘explain’ the rise > of a new party-state-corporate elite and their accumulation path as largely > an outcome of rotten ‘morals’, particular leadership and specific projects. > **** > > ** ** > > Also, there really does need to more than the by-now somewhat perfunctory > refrain of ‘where is the left in SA?’ – the question has been posed since > the early 1990s, in various forms and contexts and the ‘answers’ are as > varied as the ideological tendencies and groups et al. amongst the ‘SA > left’. As I have argued at length for many years now, the ‘SA left’ has > been/is in, a state of crisis which is not reducible to the ‘left’ itself > (remembering that there have been many attempts and much activism./work > over the last decade and more to try and forge ‘left’ alternatives, > whatever ‘leftists’ of various stripes think about those efforts and work) > but which is bound up in/shaped by all of the very crises - whether > structural, political, moral, organisational etc. – that Chris (for the > most part) cogently summarises in respect of the ANC-Alliance (even if he > lets the SACP off the hook almost completely). **** > > ** ** > > Onward!**** > > Dale**** > > ** ** > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >
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