Comrade
You correct one extreme of equating apartheid to socialism with another that says we can only make progressive and succesful economic changes after the demise of capitalism. We need to understand that the NDR is a political discourse that occurs within the midst of a capitalist economic milieu but it does not mean that we cannot agitate for socialist orientated changes. Infact these can be critical to build confidence and set in motion the fundamentals for a future proletarian led state. We must in the now begin to assert the predominance of socialist orientated policies. We can then debate the charecter of nationalisation (which we should in my view not necessarily equate with state ownership). Hence I was amongst the first to correct the comrade who sought to equate nationalism under apartheid with what we understand the socialization of production undersocialism,which is what communist underestand to be the goal of nationalization. You can also say socialization is the form. In our case the ANCYL has not yet given detail of how they see the Freedom Charter implemented as it relates to their call for the nationalization of mines. Which is perhaps why they are saying they are opening the debate for us to engage. Ofcourse I am averse to the dangers you forsee of a state led "revolution" rather than the working class taking the lead, in that instance the result may be state capitalism and economism as correctly warned by Domza. For the first time in a long time a bold call such as this is made by one of the progressive formations and we should not squander the opportunity to strenghten the horizons for a left orientated economic discourse by outrightly dismissing it without even emerging better informed of how we need to advance. Mxolisi --- Sent from UnionMail Service [http://mail.union.org.za] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
