I second that emotion. All I see is what the general public sees.
Terry Bell's article from Friday's Business Report, which I posted today, quotes "COSATU negotiator Mugwena Maluleke". That is in the public realm. I hope you still have it. Thanks Cde Cedric. VC On 30 May 2011 14:45, Cedric Gina <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> > [email protected]> wrote: > >> *National Democratic Revolution, Part 7b* >> * * >> <C:\Users\Dtweedie\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.jpg> >> >> *Pierre Poujade, 1920-2003 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Poujade>* >> >> *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<http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/index.htm> >> *”) 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<http://www.sacp.org.za/main.php?include=pubs/umsebenzi/2010/vol9-01.html> >> * 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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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<http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/housing-question/index.htm> >> *”), Rosa Luxemburg’s (e.g. “*Reform or >> Revolution?<http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/index.htm> >> *”), and Lenin’s (e.g. “*The Tax in >> Kind<http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/apr/21.htm> >> *”) writings. >> >> *Please download and read the text via the following link:* >> *The case-history of Poujadisme, >> Foster<https://sites.google.com/site/communistuniversity/texts/12-ndr/1209b%2CThecase-historyofPoujadisme%2CFoster.doc?attredirects=0&d=1> >> * (1714 words) >> * * >> *Further reading**:*** >> *Citizen and Subject, C8, Linking the Urban and the Rural, >> Mamdani<https://sites.google.com/site/communistuniversity/texts/12-ndr/1209a%2CCitizen%26Subject%2CC8%2CLinkingtheUrbanandtheRural%2CMamdani.doc?attredirects=0&d=1> >> * (7236 words) >> *The Peasants' Revolt, C8, Chiefs in the Saddle, Govan >> Mbeki<https://sites.google.com/site/communistuniversity/texts/12-ndr/1209%2CPeasants%27Revolt%2CC8%2CChiefsintheSaddle%2CMbeki.doc?attredirects=0&d=1> >> * (5708 words) >> >> >> >> ycl >> >> -- >> You are subscribed. 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