But also, Cde Petunia, the vanguard party must have generalists, because they are required to make out the line of march in view of all the circumstances and the historical conjuncture.
While in the mass organisations, leadership and membership are specialist, and not, in the first place, generalists. VC On 7 May 2012 09:29, Petunia <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > Lol..Sive, > > > Thanks VC, > > Indeed both concepts if I may refer to them as such, can be unpacked over > and over and I think depending on the context: politically, socially, > economically etc, then they take shape. > > Safe to say, generalists posses the skills of specialists coupled with > theory or knowledge that goes beyond the average theorising of capitalist > knowledge... > > As a result of an all rounder, critical in thinking, with objective views > and the drive for execution. Implementation is therefore, for the people by > the people. > > Thanks again VC, > > Each one teach one! > > > > > > > > > > Education shall be compulsory, universal, free and equal for all children! > - The Freedom Charter: 1955 - > ------------------------------ > *From: * [email protected] > *Sender: * [email protected] > *Date: *Mon, 7 May 2012 04:09:53 +0000 > *To: *<[email protected]> > *ReplyTo: * [email protected] > *Subject: *Re: [YCLSA Discussion] ANC MP Florence Nyanda passes on > > Good Morning Cdes, > > We can now continue... > > Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! > ------------------------------ > *From: * Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]> > *Sender: * [email protected] > *Date: *Mon, 7 May 2012 06:07:05 +0200 > *To: *<[email protected]> > *ReplyTo: * [email protected] > *Subject: *Re: [YCLSA Discussion] ANC MP Florence Nyanda passes on > > > Good morning Petunia! > > This has been a long thread. It made me think again, about specialists and > generalists. > > Workers are obliged to be specialists in the first place and for as long > as they remain proletarians, even if they are hand-langers to other > specialists. I think the experience of being a worker is very critical. I > am glad that I have had many years of manual skilled labour behind me > because it makes me very sure of what I may need to say about workers in > that regard, from time to time. Not all communists can get that kind of > experience, but it is good if they can. > > To be a generalist looks easy but it is not at all easy. In the end you > will have to explore all the way to the frontiers of philosophy, where you > will find that there are difficult questions that are still open and not > resolved by anybody, not even by Karl Marx. > > On the way there you will be ambushed time and again by people like the > recent and present ANC Youth League leadership, who think that they can > easily be generals without any study, but just by bald claims and bullying. > > > A luta continua! > > VC > > > > > -- 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] .
