Comrades Since the space is more broad and open for debate especially after Polokwane, I thought I should raise a question that seems to be taken lightly.
Remember raising questions also means raising those that we may not want to see/hear raised. Ok process aside. Let me ask my question. The status quo organisationally is that the GS of the Party and several provincial secretaries have violated the Constitution of the Party including the NS of the YCL in terms of the YCL constitution. The violation in question is known publicly I need not raise it here. However thats not my primary concern. My primary concern and question is whether; as argued by Jeremy Cronin on national TV, the decision of the CC to endorse the decision of GS was consistent, correct and principled and effect does it have on the organisation as a whole? Was the decision of the GS to violate the constitution consistent, correct and principled? There is now talk of "conditions have changed" does that mean when the position of provincial secretaries was also made permanent/fulltime mean that it was expediency such that because "conditions then were different" it was an organisationally sound thing to make the positions fulltime? In other words was the decision of congress taken to build the Party in order to be changed later let alone violated to suit individual's personal choices? Or vice-versa, was it taken to suit individual choices even then? When the decision was taken was there no foresight into "conditions that would later change"? Because as communists would say; change is permanent. In any case what are these conditions that have suddenly changed? Is it the space that the communist party is now "having" as others are whispering. Ok, the space is there but to do what? Where is the Party perspective on the Global Financial Crisis? Because for me space means space to articulate and hegemonise ideas of the Party. So, the conditions changed for what? So that what can happen? I hope we work to find answers to these questions because, in future we must handle such matters differently. I also hope I wont be insulted like in the past when I raise questions that I believe must be raised in terms of the principle of "self-criticism" SM --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
