Comrades and friends please forwad me mandelas 2 books "long walk to freedom" and "conversations with my self" please
On 6/3/11, Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]> wrote: > Attached. > > > VC > > > > On 3 June 2011 14:03, thabo mathiba <[email protected]> wrote: > >> cannot dowload the said files,may someone please download them all and >> send >> us as attachments >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Dominic Tweedie < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> *National Democratic Revolution, Part 8* >>> >>> [image: Strategy and Tactics] >>> *Oliver Tambo, >>> 1917-1993<http://www.anc.org.za/list_by.php?by=Oliver%20Tambo> >>> * >>> >>> *Strategy and Tactics* >>> >>> *“The art of revolutionary leadership consists in providing leadership to >>> the masses and not just to its most advanced elements… **what appears to >>> be 'militant' and 'revolutionary' can often be counter-revolutionary.”* >>> * * >>> *“The enemy is as aware as we are that the side that wins the allegiance >>> of the people, wins the struggle. It is naive to believe that oppressed >>> and >>> beleaguered people cannot temporarily, even in large numbers, be won over >>> by >>> fear, terror, lies, indoctrination, and provocation to treat liberators >>> as >>> enemies. In fact history proves that without the most intensive all-round >>> political activity this is the more likely result. It is therefore all >>> the >>> more vital that the revolutionary leadership is nation-wide and has its >>> roots both inside and outside the actual areas of combat. Above all, when >>> victory comes, it must not be a hollow one. To ensure this we must also >>> ensure that what is brought to power is not an army but the masses as a >>> whole at the head of which stands its organised political leadership.”* >>> * * >>> *“In the last resort it is only the success of the national democratic >>> revolution which - by destroying the existing social and economic >>> relationships - will bring with it a correction of the historical >>> injustices >>> perpetrated against the indigenous majority…”* >>> >>> The above lines are taken from the ANC’s [Morogoro] Strategy and Tactics >>> document of 1969 (linked below). It can be taken as the idea of the >>> National >>> Democratic Revolution (NDR) in a nutshell. What must be brought to power >>> is >>> not an army, but the masses. >>> >>> Politics is in the subjective realm. Politics is about the essence of >>> subjectivity - freedom. But politics can only have an existence within >>> the >>> limits of objective realities. >>> >>> Objectively, the NDR has a steadily-built organisational history of >>> personalities, of events, and of documents. It has worked within the >>> several >>> class components, and at the same time changed by its action the balance >>> of >>> class forces in South Africa. >>> >>> Next to the Freedom Charter, the original 1969 ANC Strategy and Tactics >>> document is the most prominent of all the NDR documents. In discussing >>> the >>> military activities of Umkhonto we Siswe (MK), it outlines alliance >>> politics >>> in terms that are sometimes crystal-clear, and sometimes not so clear. >>> For >>> an example of the latter, the class nature of the enemy is not described >>> in >>> very direct terms in the S&T document itself. Still, the Morogoro S&T is >>> the >>> best one to use as the basis for a discussion of the subjective political >>> action of this period, and for some of its remarks on the underlying >>> class >>> realities. >>> >>> The *new version of “Strategy and >>> Tactics”<http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/conf/conference52/index.html> >>> * passed at the 2007 52nd National Conference of the ANC at Polokwane >>> supplies a concise description of how, in the past, the enemy was >>> defined, >>> thus (from paragraph 96 of that document): >>> >>> *“The liberation movement defined the enemy, on the other hand, as the >>> system of white minority domination with the white community being the >>> beneficiaries and defenders of this system. These in turn were made up of >>> workers, middle strata and capitalists. Monopoly capital was identified >>> as >>> the chief enemy of the NDR.”* >>> >>> Unfortunately this clarity of the latest S&T document is only in relation >>> to the past. In the paragraphs that follow the above, it can be seen that >>> the current S&T rehabilitates the monopoly capitalists as part of >>> “concentric circles” of “drivers of change”. This new S&T was drafted by >>> the >>> “1996 class project”, i.e. those who were removed from the leadership at >>> the >>> same conference but who nevertheless managed to get their version of the >>> S&T >>> passed. It holds out an imaginary scenario where the liberation movement >>> mediates and manages relations between all classes in a static, eternal >>> and >>> practically class-neutral “National Democratic Society”. >>> >>> Whereas the 1969 S&T never mentioned any such static “National Democratic >>> Society” but was, on the contrary, unequivocally in favour of a bold >>> transfer of class power. *“In essence, a revolutionary policy is one >>> which holds out the quickest and most fundamental transformation and >>> transfer of power from one class to another,”* it said. >>> >>> *Please download and read the text via the following link**:* >>> *Strategy and Tactics, Morogoro, 1969, >>> ANC<https://sites.google.com/site/communistuniversity/texts/12-ndr/1210%2CStrategy%26Tactics%2CMorogoro%2C1969%2CANC.doc?attredirects=0&d=1> >>> * (5882 words) >>> * * >>> *Further reading:* >>> *Road to South African Freedom, 1962, >>> SACP<https://sites.google.com/site/communistuniversity/texts/12-ndr/1210a%2CTheRoadtoSAFreedom%2C1962%2CSACP.doc?attredirects=0&d=1> >>> * (18552 words) >>> *Disruptive Role of the PAC and United Front Failure, 1962, >>> Dadoo<https://sites.google.com/site/communistuniversity/texts/12-ndr/1210b%2CDisruptiveRoleofthePAC%2CWhytheUnitedFrontFailed%2CDadoo.doc?attredirects=0&d=1> >>> * (1020 words) >>> *Arusha Declaration, 1967, Nyerere >>> <https://sites.google.com/site/communistuniversity/texts/12-ndr/1210c%2CArushaDeclaration%2C1967%2CNyerere.doc?attredirects=0&d=1> >>> *(7171 words) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You are subscribed. 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