Cde domza am upset with the defeat at the hands of the Uruguay team ,in true communist fashion will respond in the morning ,am sure u will persevere for my response.
Amandla Moses ka moyo On Wednesday, June 16, 2010, Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]> wrote: > Cde Moses, > Maybe it's time to start to talk about some things in a bit more depth, and I > don't mean any leadership contest. > I want to disclose an interest. When Zico Tamela, Maki Ndabeni and I started > the Communist University in 2003, I was already in the eighth year of running > a resource centre for new "entrepreneurs" or business proprietors. More > exactly, I was providing Business Development Services (BDS). By that time I > was the proprietor and my BDS business was called "Hypercube". The Communist > University held its first few months of sessions in my resource centre, in > the second half of 2003, just at the time when the YCL was being revived. > > Before my resource centre was established in 1996, I already had experience > in this field in the Eastern Cape, in Johannesburg, and in Britain. I know > accounting, contract law, company and co-operative law, building, costing, > project management and cash flow forecasting and many other skills. > > I wish we had a communist party advisory group or other kind of collective > that would study and develop such skills among revolutionaries, because they > are all revolutionary necessities, as Lenin understood very well, for one. > > So when it comes to the kind of things the National Youth Development Agency > is trying to do, and claiming to do, I have plenty of experience of them. I > have seen, for example, Ntsika and Khula come and go. I have seen the efforts > of the SETAs. I have seen the efforts of the banks. The list of failed > initiatives is too long to mention. > > None of them succeeded. Practically all that has survived after billions of > rands have been spent on promoting small businesses and youth > entrepreneurship is what they started with, namely an essentially shallow > appeal to aspiration and desire for wealth, with very little of > understanding. In other words it has been more about pro-capitalist > propaganda than anything else. > > The Communist University from my point of view was about me learning, as much > as anybody else, and it still is like that. Hypercube had to close in 2004. I > was good. I was the best available. But I was not succeeding, and nobody else > was succeeding. > > I really can't believe that the NYDA is succeeding. If they were, then we > would see the results and we would be hearing about the way they do it, which > would have to be something new, because nobody has ever succeeded with this > thing in that way. > > One of the main reasons I personally went over to deeper communist political > studies in 2003 was because it was very clear to me by that time that without > political understanding, the idea of "SMMEs" (Small, Medium and Micro > Enterprises) was a dead duck. I could see that it was partly a matter of > motivation (agency) and partly a matter of class politics. As I think about > it now, I believe it is an even more fundamental matter of understanding what > Karl Marx called "the secret of the self-expansion of capital". I am sure > that without this kind understanding, the idea of small business development > is not going to be realised. > > Likewise, I don't think revolution will be realised if the nature of > business, as a practical and successful exercise is not properly understood > by the revolutionaries. > > There is a lot of discussion to be had about this, most of it necessary and > even crucial. Th discussion is a "must have" in my opinion, but it has hardly > begun. The recent remarks of the National Secretary of the YCL are a good > beginning, and Andile Lungisa's obviously sincere commitment is a good > beginning, but these are beginnings. Since 1994 we have hardly got anywhere > on this front. The quick gains of BEE have been made, that's all, leaving the > greater part of the work by far, still to be done. > > Let me throw out a few talking points. > An entrepreneur is only a trader, connecting demand with supply.The essence > of growth is the extraction of surplus value. Labour power is sold by the > worker and bought by the capitalist, who extracts more labour than he pays > for. If the boss is a nationalised industry, municipality or parastatal (SOE) > the relationship is still the same, capitalist relationship. It's called > having a job. > Extraction of surplus value happens in the workplace, not in the market > place. In that sense, the entrepreneur has nothing to do with the creation of > value. The entrepreneur is part of the circulation.COSATU, SACP and YCL all > demand more jobs, and correctly so, even though we know that the job > relationship is at the heart of capitalism, generating the class conflict > that we as communists are dedicated to putting an end to. > This contradiction is resolved by saying that the product we want, and the > measure of "development", is only one: the growth of the working class, > because it is the only possible revolutionary class by now. > The Chinese have assembled the largest working class the world has ever seen, > from almost nothing at the time of their revolution. Our strategic goal > should be seen for the time being as the creation of a giant working class in > Africa. In this work, capitalism is not a "stage" but it is an instrument. > This is why the NYDA, or something like it, must succeed. We must make it > succeed. We must have more jobs and that means more capitalism. > The capital relationship, the job, is the means of creating the working > class. Only a giant, dominant, organised, politically-conscious working class > will ever be able to create a world where the relationship that created it as > a class, can be transcended, and done away with. > For the time being, this remains the only growth path. There is only one > source of growth under capitalism, and that is surplus-value. There is no > second growth path. We have to get hold of this and drive it, be in charge of > it and rule it. > > These are just some thoughts towards beginning a discussion about these and > related things, of which there are many others that could be mentioned. but > this is enough for a beginning. I hope you will all join in. Personally, as I > have explained above, this is an essential conversation that has been waiting > to happen for many years past. > > VC > > > > > On 16 June 2010 10:27, Bayethe Zulu <[email protected]> wrote: > This is gutter journalism.the president was with the yl president in Limpopo, > > the media has tried and failed to divide our revolutinery movement. > > President Jacob zuma will adress the youth program as head of state > and cde lungida will adress as head of a youth state organ,period. > > Long live the PYA > > Moses ka moyo > > > > On Wednesday, June 16, 2010, Dominic.Tweedie <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Zuma to skip Malema rally >> >> Leaders to celebrate Youth Day apart >> >> >> >> Nkululeko Ncana, The Times, Johannesburg, >> 15 July 2010 >> >> President Jacob Zuma and the ANC Youth League will, for the >> first time in years, commemorate Youth Day at different rallies. >> >> In the latest sign of strained relations between the >> president and youth league leader Julius Malema, Zuma will mark the >> historic >> day by addressing a rally organised by the National Youth Development >> Agency, >> in Mpumalanga, instead of one organised by the youth league. >> >> Zuma will share the stage with Malema's rival, Andile >> Lungisa, the youth agency's chairman. >> >> Lungisa, who is also deputy president of the ANC Youth >> League, is lobbying for support as Malema's successor next year. >> >> Today, Malema will address scores of youth league faithful >> in Kuruman, Northern Cape. Zuma will miss the annual youth league rally >> for the >> first time since 2004. >> >> His absence will be only months after he and Malema fell out >> over the youth league leader's pro-Robert Mugabe comments, which were >> widely >> seen as undermining Zuma's effort to broker a political deal between >> the >> Zimbabwean president and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his >> Movement for >> Democratic Change. >> >> But Malema said yesterday that there was nothing unusual >> about Zuma's absence at today's event. >> >> The Times was told the league did not invite Zuma because of >> the complaints about last year's rally. >> >> "The league does not want to be seen to be monopolising >> the president. Last years' complaints by other parties did not bode >> well for >> the Youth Day celebrations," said a league leader. >> >> Zuma was criticised last year for sharing the stage, in his >> capacity as head of state, with Malema. >> >> The state-funded event in Katlehong, Ekurhuleni, was packed >> with ANC supporters clad in the ruling party's colours and waving >> election >> posters printed with Zuma's face. >> >> Youth league spokesman Paseka Letsatsi said the league >> "acknowledged this day as a national day" and was aware that Zuma >> would be at a government function. >> >> Also absent from the youth league rally will be Manamela's >> counterpart from tripartite alliance partner the Young Communist League >> of SA. >> >> The communists' leader, Buti Manamela, told The Times he >> would be attending a rally in Mamelodi, Tshwane, arranged by the >> provincial >> government. >> >> Manamela said his office had received a late invitation from >> the ANC Youth League and his party would instead send provincial >> leaders to >> attend. >> >> "I will be going to the rally in Mamelodi to listen to >> young people. It seems like the invitation to the youth league event >> came late >> and we can't react fast enough to attend the function when the >> invitation is >> that late," he said. >> >> The Young Communist League is to hold its rally on Saturday >> in Sasolburg, Free State. >> >> >> From: >> http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article505532.ece/Zuma-to-skip-Malema-rally >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You are subscribed. This footer can help you. >> Please POST your comments to -- > Blog at: http://domza.blogspot.com/ > Communist University web site at: http://amadlandawonye.wikispaces.com/ > Subscribe for free e-mail updates at: > http://groups.google.com/group/Communist-University/ > Library of documents (CU "CD") at: http://cu.domza.net/ > [email protected] > > > > > -- > You are subscribed. 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