Indeed Cde Mxolisi - the struggle is continuous and is driven by human beings. Of course in any struggle there will always be a leadership - the SACP and other worker friendly organizations will play an important leadership role in the struggle against capitalism.
The Capitalist system is self destructive in various ways - e.g., the proletariat is a product of the capitalist system which will be responsible for its destruction. The proletariat will as a result be responsible for the establishment of socialism/communism - that is the natural way in which capitalism will decay. Communism/Socialism describes some order of social formation where the collective reigns supreme - in contrast to the capitalist social formation where the individual is supreme. Nothing is spontaneous in so far is the struggle against capitalism is concerned. It is the material conditions that will dictate change or movement. The NDR is the necessary route towards the establishment of Socialism/Communism - no short cuts. History has shown that short cuts do not work - rather they take the proletariat revolution back. I am again compelled to place the issue raised in the paper " SACP and State Power " - whether socialism/capitalism can be established through the ballot box? -----Original Message---- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mxolisi Mlatha Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 10:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Re: Who owns the succession debate? Cde Jomo I must first say that my joinder of this discussion would have inherent limitations in that I am only following this discussion as of today (2 july 2009) It would seem that you believe that the proletariat may independently of their working class organizations realise socialism. The other hypothesis emerging from your input which may seem contradictory to the latter is that socialism will evolve naturally out of the decay of capitalism.These two postulates seem to ignore the fact that capitalism is a human endeavor and would need active human contestation to change it. Hence Marxism primarily recognises the contestation of classes within class society in order to bring about qualitative changes (Moving from quantity to quality) Secondly, the Concept of socialism (& Communism) does not manifests itself naturally within the working class. It is not the spontaneous response of the working class that will bring about communism; it is rather as a consequence of the role of the Party of the working class (SACP). Your interpretation of the NDR as being as struggle absolutely isolated from the struggle for communism might be shortchanging a marxist interpretation of the NDR. Hence the SACP speaks of an uninterupted advance to socialism. As SA communists we have always sought to show that the NDR and socialist struggle is not a two stagists approach but a singular pathway in a protracted struggle for communism. Regards Mxolisi Mlatha --- Sent from UnionMail Service [http://mail.union.org.za] ##################################################################################### Scanned by MailMarshal - Marshal8e6's comprehensive email content security solution. Download a free evaluation of MailMarshal at www.marshal.com ##################################################################################### --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
