Cdes I fully agree wih Comrade Luzuko, political education is very essential for the movement and will also help a lot of comrades interms of participating on robust debates and discussions from an informed position not just from feelings.
Amandla to political education !! Mandla a Proudly South African in Palestine On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Luzuko Buku <[email protected]> wrote: > *Calls for intensification of political education made by many including > the ANC Secretary General Cde. Gwede Mantashe in his contribution to the ANC > today of 16 October sheds some light into the nature and direction that the > movement is supposed to be going. * > > *Comrade Gwede’s contribution is a wake-up call and it will assist us > towards the resolution of the problem that Cde. Gugile Nkwinti pointed out > about 9 years ago when he made an observation that comrades who are properly > trained in the movements’ policies and programme are a diminishing > proportion of the people that currently populate it. This leads to a > situation where it is easy to buy them. * > > *The Communist Manifesto’s assertion that the history of all hitherto > existing society is that of class struggle is true reflection of society, > but equally so the theory of the National Democratic Revolution which talks > about the class alliance between the working class with some sections of the > middle and upper class, who share the same objectives with those of the > working class, is also relevant. * > > * In the South African context, this is reflected in the Revolutionary > Alliance of three different but interrelated and interdependent > organisations. This Alliance is led by the ANC, which is a mass liberation > movement, with working class organisations such as SACP and COSATU as > allies.* > > *The SACP is a working class organisation that strives for Socialism and > COSATU is a revolutionary trade union movement which transcends petty > economic analysis of work place struggles as it gives them political content > and locates them within the working class struggle for socialism. * > > *The ANC on the other hand is a multi-class organisation which is biased > towards the working class. Because it is a multi-class this means its > ideological position is shaped and revived by different sections of society > and in most cases these are classes which are supposed to be in antagonistic > terms in society. * > > *The current NEC of the ANC is indicative of this and the current > differences also bring this to mind. The fact that the ANC is multi-class, > does not mean that the ANC is ideological neutral and neither does it mean > it performs some form of a ‘class balancing act’. * > > *Honest comrades have been forever saying that the ANC has an ideology > which is premised on the principles of the Freedom Charter and clearly > articulated in the programme of the National Democratic Revolution. * > > *Comrade Gwede is right the current ANC Strategy and Tactics document > recognises the leading role of the “African majority working class” in the > National Democratic Revolution. This basically means that the middle > class and the emergent black elites joined the ANC because they agreed with > this agenda of the working class.. * > > *Throughout the period in which this revolutionary alliance has been in > public office, there has been a systematic campaign to project the ANC as a > neoliberal capitalist organisation in alliance with working class > organisations such as COSATU and SACP. This has been mostly done by those > from the emergent capitalist class, but also by some within Marxists circles > (“The Sectarian Left”). * > > *This has been the cause for many differences in the movement and this can > be illustrated by the emergence of the ‘1996 class project’ which has, in > some way, rolled back, but replaced now by what the SACP Special Congress > Discussion Document calls the “new tendency”. * > > *The call for intensification of political education will indeed help us > navigate through these and many other challenges because it will help us > understand that it is the emergent or aspiring capitalist who ideological > joined the working class in the ANC and the movement at large and not the > reverse. * > > *Political education will teach us that communist are people who are with > and for the workers and the poor hence they will always contests any > privatisation, flawed tender process and javelin throwing even if these > benefits people within the ranks of the movement. * > > *This is the reason why communist will always be in conflict with sections > of the emergent capitalist class. Political education will therefore show > us as to where these whole anti-communist sentiments come from and why they > will always be in the movement and how they can be dealt with. * > > *Political education will lead to political and organisational > independence as it will teach us as to how to deal with influence of money > in our movement. It is political education that will help us formulate a > pragmatic approach to the challenges we are facing and not just interpret > them as a attack against Gwede Mantashe, Blade Nzimande or Phumulo Masualle > and others.* > > *Political Education will help us navigate thought these problems by > teaching us that “Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims.” * > > ** > > *Revolutionary Regards * > Luzuko Buku > YCL Chairperson, Rhodes University > ANC Rodgers Faltein > 0786172286 > www.lbuku.blogspot.com > > > "The state is the product and manifestation of the irreconcilability of > class antagonisms..."State and Revolution, Lenin (1917) > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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. 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