Cde Mercy, I guess every progress in life has it's negatives. I think negotiations are very important in building the organization on the ground. I therefore think that whilst Cde Domza works in SADTU, it is unfair for comrades to expect him to report on the email because that may discourage them from attending the regional meetings and work based report back meetings.
SADTU must be very strong and for it to be strong, it needs comrades like Mercy to attend those report back meetings. It is just a humbly opinion my dear comrades. Kind regards, Cedric Sabelo Gina On 30 May 2011, at 14:32, mercy matamela <[email protected]> wrote: > Cde Dominic > > Can u pls update m with SADTU negotiation so far > ! > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]> > wrote: > National Democratic Revolution, Part 7b > > <C:\Users\Dtweedie\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.jpg> > Pierre Poujade, 1920-2003 > > The Petty Bourgeoisie and Poujadism > > Last in this section on class alliance, which has looked at peasants and > traditional leaders as well as bourgeois and proletarians, we now consider > the petty-bourgeoisie, a large class in South Africa, and one that includes a > high proportion of the very poor in this country. The hawkers and the > “survivors” are members of this class, as much as the small shopkeepers and > small business people (the so-called “SMMEs”). > > The petty bourgeoisie are the urban equivalent of the peasant class. They > share with the peasantry the peculiar characteristic of being what Karl Marx > called (in the “18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”) a “sack of potatoes”. Such > a class has minimal internal linkages. It exists as an aggregate, and not as > an organism. In chemical terms, it is a mixtures, and not a compound. > > This is in contrast with the working proletariat, which is a socialised, or > in other words, interdependent class. For this among other reasons, the > working class is a more advanced class, capable of giving leadership to the > peasantry and to the petty-bourgeoisie. > > In his address at Joe Slovo’s graveside on the 15th anniversary of Slovo’s > death, 6 January 2010, the current General Secretary of the SACP Cde Dr Blade > Nzimande said, concerning the leadership the working-class party must give: > > “We must also recruit amongst small businesses, who continue to be suffocated > by monopoly capital in general, the capitalist malls built in the townships > that are killing their small businesses, and the `tenderpreneurs` who > continue to enrich themselves often through corrupt tenders at the expense of > honest small entrepreneurs who do not have political connections in the > state. We must strengthen small entrepreneurs and defeat `tenderpreneurs`! We > need to support skills development for co-operatives, small and micro > enterprises. We need to deepen our struggle for the transformation of our > financial sector to benefit the workers and the poor, including co-operatives > and small and micro businesses. > > “As we have done over the past 16 years and before, we need to engage and > seek to influence the terms and conditions under which a new black section of > the bourgeoisie emerges and grow. We need to fight for truly broad based > empowerment and seek to direct investment into the productive sectors of our > economy that is creating jobs. We need to continuously expose and challenge > self-enrichment of a few and fight the emergence of a highly dependent > compradorial bourgeoisie! In this struggle we must also seek to expose > opportunistic use of the language and demands of the working class in order > to hide the accumulation agenda of a compradorial bourgeoisie. This is the > meaning of Slovo`s life, struggles and observations today!” > > The Marxist literature devoted to the petty bourgeoisie in our time is > pitifully small. We now go to a recollection of France in the 1950s (but > written later) for an account of the phenomenon of “Poujadism”. This was a > petty-bourgeois uprising that allied itself, in its beginning and at local > level, with the communists, until it degenerated towards near-fascism. See > above for a picture of Pierre Poujade (1920-2003), the leader of this > movement. > > In their relations with the intermediate classes, history shows that the > communists must proceed with great care and must not lose focus. But it also > shows that these classes are real and can potentially have a self-conscious > and beneficial development, if aided by the always better-organised working > class. But if petty-bourgeois populism gets out of hand, which it can do, > then the distance between it and fascism can be covered in a short time. > > Foster’s account is written from a somewhat sectarian point of view. It > disparages the efforts of the French communist party, but it does not say > that the vanguard party should not give leadership to the petty bourgeoisie. > On the contrary, Foster confirms this necessity. All he can manage to say > against the communists is that if the Trotskyists had been in charge they > would have done better - a hollow claim. > > More on the nature and the problems of the petty bourgeoisie can be found in > Engels’ (e.g. “The Housing Question”), Rosa Luxemburg’s (e.g. “Reform or > Revolution?”), and Lenin’s (e.g. “The Tax in Kind”) writings. > > Please download and read the text via the following link: > The case-history of Poujadisme, Foster (1714 words) > > Further reading: > Citizen and Subject, C8, Linking the Urban and the Rural, Mamdani (7236 words) > The Peasants' Revolt, C8, Chiefs in the Saddle, Govan Mbeki (5708 words) > > > > ycl > -- > You are subscribed. 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