I fully concure with comrade Khanye, sometimes as communist we must expose ourselve to these liberal onsloughts in order to defend our position and our ideology, which informs our quest. Some people hold different views but I read anti-communist works in order to stregthen the ideology that I have made to be part of my life. For instance the writer of this article opportunistically connects the issue of lavish lifestyles of some cadres to the debate on media tribunal. This is a clear attempt to blackmail us into silence and stop persuing the debate on the Media Appeals Tribunal. We need to read such articles in order to challange them. In the recent Msebenzi Oline, comrade Jeremy Cronin goes about reading the reactionary articles of various columnist in order to expose their poor substance and rich grandstanding. Remember the Communist Party of London read the entire "Black book of Communism" and then wrote an entire pamphlet not just dismissing it but also exposing its flaws, myths and misrepresentations.
Revolutionary Regards Luzuko Buku SASCO Regional Chair Western Region (EC) 0786172286 www.lbuku.blogspot.com "The state is the product and manifestation of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms..."State and Revolution, Lenin (1917) ________________________________ From: khaye nkwanyana <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, August 6, 2010 10:32:23 AM Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] A Duhring Wanna BEE VC I think you are unfair to Skhumbuzo. At times as communist we need to appraise ourselves about onslaughts pursued against us and our leadership so that we mobilize against those in the battle of ideas. This posting by Thomo should not mean a call for comrades to internalize but to fight the agenda through opinion pieces etc. In the same bourgeois media to demistify these myths. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device ________________________________ From: Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 08:49:45 +0200 To: <[email protected]> ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] A Duhring Wanna BEE Skhumbuzo, Is it your intention to be posting all the anti-communist articles that you can find? Why? What is the use of that? Do you think we are all going to run barking after the Barney Mthombothis of this world like your pack of hounds? This article helps us not at all to understand anything. Are you the kind of bloke who reads the Duhring part of anti-Duhring, and ignores the Engels part? Because, frankly, that's a bit boring. Personally I read the Engels parts and ignore the bits about Duhring. VC On 6 August 2010 08:12, Sikhumbuzo Thomo <[email protected]> wrote: Comrades; > >Pasted are further insults on our general secretary. > >Rgds, ST > >Barney Mthombothi > > >Editor’s note Deadly threat to all >Barney Mthombothi >Thursday, 5 Aug 2010 > >The collapse of the Soviet Union two decades ago exposed not only the >bankruptcy >of its ideology but the rich and obscene lifestyle of its leaders — the dachas >where they romped and lolled and the extravagantly furnished bunkers where >they >would have safely repaired in the event of a nuclear attack. > >Meanwhile ordinary people were constantly exhorted to put their faith in the >revolution. It was dachas for the cream of society and gulags for dissenters. >Communism is an ideology conceived in a lie. Leaders say one thing while doing >the other. They live a life of deception. They don’t seem prepared to live the >life or reality they often romanticise, or to which their policies condemn >ordinary people. And because the media and other forms of communication are >controlled by the state, the so-called working class are kept in the dark and >therefore meekly accept their lot. >That is the nirvana that Blade Nzimande has in mind for us. The general >secretary of the SA Communist Party, who works as minister for higher >education >when he feels like it, wants the media shackled because it has shown him up to >be a hypocrite. This champion of the working class drives posh cars and lives >it >up in fancy hotels — at our expense. Now he wants a tribunal to stop or >frustrate the media from telling the truth. >But that’s par for the course, I suppose. After all it was Vladimir Lenin who >blurted: “Telling the truth is a bourgeois prejudice. Deception, on the other >hand, is often justified by the goal.” >It’s revealing that the two men leading the campaign against the media have >been >in the news for the wrong reasons : Nzimande and communications minister >Siphiwe >Nyanda . Nyanda, the man with a fine taste for tenders, has seen his name crop >up in many an unsavoury scrap as a result of his business dealings. He got a >tender that got Siyabonga Gama fired at Transnet. He’s currently embroiled in >a >messy fight with his director- general, and tenders are at the heart of the >dispute. On Sunday he wrote a long, rambling article in favour of a media >tribunal. The logic was difficult to follow. He should stick to tenders. >There are those who may think the media is obsessed with gazing at its own >navel. This is not a war waged against the media only, but against democracy >itself. It challenges the very essence of our constitution. As the FM argued >recently, it is a battle that should involve all strands of society — >business, >civil society — against those who are intent on imposing darkness on us, so >that >they can loot and plunder at will. >This is by no means an isolated attack. In the eyes of Jacob Zuma’s >supporters, >the media forms part of that axis of evil — to borrow a phrase — which almost >denied their hero what he was due ; the other axis members being the Scorpions >and the judiciary. Zuma’s triumph in Polokwane sounded the death knell for the >Scorpions, who were immediately consigned to the scrapheap. The judiciary has >been shouted down and almost cowed. Which leaves the media, with its enormous >power to influence public opinion and to expose, shame and embarrass those in >authority. >As Lenin once posed the question, what then is to be done? The media tribunal >and the Protection of Information Bill seem to be the answer. The notion of >“protecting” information from the public in a democracy is, frankly, bizarre. >It’s not the first time government has tried to rein in the media. The Nats >tried several times, and failed each time . This lot, which seem keen to learn >from their predecessors, will also fail. But that would demand concerted >action >from all sectors of society, including the business community. For once, >business needs to raise its voice against what is arguably the biggest threat >to >our democracy since the fall of apartheid. -- > >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. 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