Ian, As one of participants to this forum, I feel offended for one these reasons:
1. The matter around the purchase of a luxurious vehicle by the Minister of Higher Education who happens to serve in the capacity of the General Secretary of the SACP would obviously draw interest into debating as to whether was it correct for him to accept the such from most of us since there were opportunistic attacks relieved by enemies of the left like the DA who unfortunately were singing the same song with our tried and tested ally, the working class(COSATU). 2. The General Secretary is an Office of the political head of the SACP and it cannot be petty that we discuss such a matter that will stem around it. 3. As the discussions went on they moved away from the mere questions of political and ideological morality of our Leader by some in the forum to an indepth engagement on things like the "New Tendency" in the Movement. 4. While one acknowledges the serious matters that Ian raises as of pivotal importance that we in the forum should be focusing on but to call this matter "petty discussion" I find it offending to all Comrades in the Forum to be reduced to "Left Wing-Babies" after all it is not all of us here who are Young Communists. While allowing and accepting decent views remains the over-arching principle of this forum, I strongly feel that you need to apologies to this forum for insulting our intelligence! Amandla! On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Ian Beddowes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Having fairly recently come fro Zimbabwe, where there are huge issues of > class, race, imperialism and Pan-Africanism, I am gobsmacked by the waste of > time spent in this forum by discussions on motor cars and other trivia. > There are major issues such as rural development, illegal evictions and > education for which we need to find solutions -- and that is only in South > Africa. > There are further issues, hardly touched on, as to why, 15 years into > democracy, has a South African President only now visited Angola, which > provided bases for MK at a massive cost to the Angolan people? Why did > COSATU try to block the Zimbabwean border in solidarity with the > Anglo-American Axis? Why, when the South African struggle was assisted by > neighbouring countries, do South Africans, more especially those who claim > to be Marxists, want to eat alone? > The only person who I have heard speak out publicly on these issues is > President Jacob Zuma in the speech he made at last years MK Commemoration > in Bloemfontein -- if ther are others -- I will be interested to hear more. > Pan-Africanism is not for the PAC only. Most of all, I am horrified by the > lack of kowledge on the Second Congo War, the biggest war since World War 2 > in terms of the loss of human lives. But after all they were only > Makwerekwere, and its far more important for South Africans to discuss > whether or not a minister spent too much on a car. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
