How do you feel when recruiting members for the YOUNG
COMMUNIST LEAGUE?
By Luzuko
Buku, Rhodes University YCL Chairperson
Ask a
young communist operating in our present society as to how they feel about
recruiting people to join the Young Communist league of South Africa? The
response will be like this, “Ours is a beautiful organisation which has gained
fame for most of the good things that it has done and for the best things that
it seeks to attain in future…” Ask them to continue answering the question and
not to talk about what the organisation has done, but about recruitment, they
will tell you that it’s difficult, and then ask me why?
Yoh! It
came as a great shock to me when we (as the Young Communist League) tried to
recruit someone for our organisation, bra! The young lady said she was scared
of communists – oh!
This type
of response indicates the dangers of capitalism quite clearly. It is not
surprising, as we know that capitalism is based on promoting consumerism and
fracturing society into classes of exploiters and the exploited. Because it
controls the media, capitalism is able to naturalise its evils while painting
communism as a threat to many people, you see my sister!
>From this
kind of response, it becomes clear that capitalism is a system based on
deception and wise lies that lure even the highly educated people. For me my
brother, that lady is indeed highly educated, but as Lenin said in a capitalist
society, the only education that you will ever get is that which deceives
people into ignoring other ideals that are contra to it.
Our
education system is mainly centred on capitalism and this means you only get to
learn about Marxism when it is criticised or provided as a criticism to the
dominant mode of production and distribution. In almost every sociological
textbook in Universities, Marxist-Leninist ideals are only referred to when the
dominant mode is being criticised.
I tell
you, if you could ask someone studying economics about Marx or Lenin, they
would never know them even though Marx and Lenin wrote a lot on economics. Even
if you go to the economics sections in every university library you will find
Marx, Engels and Lenin’s works in this section, but still the only people you
will get to learn about are Adam Smith and David Ricardo who were liberal
economists. For me, having a degree in economics means having a degree in
liberal economics as it ignores other schools of thought.
A degree
in economics would require knowledge of economics which will span across the
ideological spectrum. This mean people will have to know what Marxism,
neo-liberalism and other schools of thought argue on economics and this should
not be inclined to one school of thought and the others presented as its
critiques.. That’s why we are proposing for the inclusion of Marxist-Leninism in
the education curriculum but more specifically in an economics degree.. By this
we will be able to end fears that people may have against Socialism and
Communism.
This will
also help us a lot in terms of recruitment; honestly I am tired of explaining
the whole literature of Marxism before a person can fill a form of the YCL. I
am also tired of having to convince him or her about the relevancy of socialism
and communism today before the required R5 is payed. What do you think?
Forward to PYA victory in the battle of ideas
Luzuko Buku
Rhodes University YCL
0786172286
Please read my Blog@ www.reds.blat.co.za
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