POLITICAL FACTIONALISM, STRATEGIC DEVIATION FROM THE STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES OF THE MOVEMENT By: Kaizer Mohau
In most debates on this question or rather the factionalist matter, comrades seem to have a tendency to be denialists – by arguing that the movement is not divided and thus there is no factionalism in the movement. Perhaps, comrades are not reading reality as in reality but reading their thinking and wishes and masquerading them as the truth. Whether we agree or not, our movement is currently suffering from this strange and Un – ANC tendency. Worse of all this tendency is not only having negative impact on the movement and its unity and cohesion but more so it negatively impact on service delivery and the popular mandate our people gave to us towards and in 1994. It cannot be accepted and correct that we should use power we have to advance our personal agendas at the expense of the movement as led by the ANC. Perhaps, we should call things by their own names – the former president of the ANC and the country should take responsibility for conducting him/and themselves in a manner that introduced this tendency in the movement. Contrary to what that crooky priest Frank Chikane claims that the current president plot tingly removed the former President. It was not the current president who used the media to deal with political questions and issues but the former president – It not the current president who used state institutions to advance an attack on his own comrade, it was never the current president who made public pronouncements of charges against the then Deputy President of the ANC and the country, surely the 1996 class project represented factional interests of the then president therefore the former president must take responsibility for gradually degenerating the ANC into a group of unprincipled political gangsters. What is very scary is the facts that when these factions are defeated in the ANC structures they go for a political and organizational asylum in the other structures. For instance in one of the Districts in the North West province those who were strategically defeated at the ANC Regional conference sometimes last year are now members of the SACP, though according to the SACP constitution, section 18.4 it says one should be more than 3 years having been an SACP member and in good standing for them to be elected in the DEC- but most delegates from that municipality are not even three weeks let alone three months in the SACP – but are now DEC members and leaders – in this context it is our view that the intention is to use the SACP to fight their factional battle in the ANC. Even though as the SACP we should celebrate their joining of the SACP but it should not be for factional purposes. Though we should never think that the SACP is innocent in the ongoing political factionalism but unlike in the ANC were factionalism is systematized, the SACP does not support nor promote this tendency. In most municipalities and the legislature in the North West people are deployed on the basis of which faction they are with – most Comrades are as we speak unemployed in the North West province mainly because they do not subscribe to either faction. Now as Marxists we do not just pronounce on mistakes but we equally go for answers, “Philosophers have only interpreted the world, however the point is to change it”, so the building of the unity and cohesion of the movement is the responsibility of all of us lest we betray the coming generation because they will permanently hold us responsible and thus insult us in historical terms. VIEW OF A YOUNG MARXIST. -- 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. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
