I'm also not sure that I understand you, comrade. Would you like to explain a bit more?
Do you mean, for example, that graphic symbols do not matter and have no importance in politics? I get a different impression. Nearly all the people's organisations have logos, and they regard them, I think, as being invested with meaning. Likewise, they have songs and dances and poems and special clothes as well as prose. Politics is not set aside from the people's general culture, nor is it confined to prose text. The terrains of all of these media are politically contested. The editor of The Times (Ray Hartley) says in his blog that the new ShikoDA-COPE logo represents the Wheel of Unity that was first used at the 1955 Congress of the People and which nowadays appears in both the ANC and the COSATU logos. In my opinion Ray Hartley's argument is false. This new sign of the ShikoDAs is not our eight-spoked Wheel of Unity, but is the Sun Cross. Yours in struggle, Dominic. From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mpho Tabane Sent: 16 November 2008 12:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Re: COPE and the fascist Sun Cross I fail to understand the relevance of the information on COPE how does this help ANC to stay focused? On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Dominic Tweedie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The "COPE" logo, adopted by the Shikota Party and published on 15 November 2008 in the Johannesburg "Star" newspaper, is as follows: COPE.jpg (Taken from a screen dump of the image on the Star web site; apologies for the poor quality) The COPE logo looks a lot like the head of an ordinary screw. But if they had done a bit more research, the Shikotas would have discovered that the cross in the circle is a very ancient symbol, older than writing, known as the Sun Cross. Unfortunately for the Shikotas-struggling-to-be-COPE, they are not the first to have used the Sun Cross in modern times. The Sun Cross is closely related to the Swastika, as can be seen from this Viking Sun Cross (from Google Images): SunCross.jpg The Sun Cross is currently used by the Swedish fascist Nordic Reich Party (Nordiska Rikspartiet). The Sun Cross was also used as a symbol under the German Nazi regime, to stand for "Positive Christianity", a Nazi term referring to a form of "Christianity" consistent with Nazism, emphasising Christ as an active preacher and organiser who opposed the institutionalised Judaism of his day. Click here to read about it. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Here is the basic Sun Cross: SunCross2.jpg or SunCross45.jpg The colours used by COPE are taken from the current national flag of South Africa. Mixing those colours with symbolism tainted by fascism will not go down well in this country. In any case, the Shikotas have no right to expropriate the colours of the national flag, just as they have no right to expropriate the name "Congress of the People". --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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