As communist we realise that society and the failings of society must be viewed in a concrete way. Making a simple empirical observation ‘there is lots of violant crime in SA’ is not a concrete analysis of concrete conditions, then applying a law saying ‘let’s give police the power to kill more criminals’ can only be viewed as reactionary in manner.
The reason, put in a very reductionist way as to why people are driving to crime is alienation. Violent crime in the soviet union was practically non-existent up until the economic reforms that led to the downfall of socialism during the perestroika years, around 1985-1990, this was at a time of increasing inequality (and alienation) of the people. Clearly if any government is serious about crime the only way to tackle it is to address the causes not react to the statistics. It is dangerous for us to doggedly defend a law even if it is wrong just because it was introduced by the ANC to parliament we must debate each law on its own merit amongst ourselves --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
