*South African Road to Socialism Draft, 2012 *
/Draft Political Report for SACP the 13th National Congress to be held
in July 2012 /
_*Chapter 1: Introduction*_
This Draft Programme of the SACP will be presented to the SACP's 13th
National Congress in July 2012 for discussion, amendments and adoption.
This Draft is, based largely on the South African Road to Socialism
(SARS) 2007, adopted at our 12th National Congress five years ago. This
current version has been adapted and updated to reflect developments
both internationally and within our own country since 2007. We believe
that the overall analysis and Strategic perspectives outlined in SARS
2007, based on the SACP's Medium Term Vision, remain fundamentally
correct and have proved themselves many times in practice over the past
five years.
The Draft Programme is intended to provide a broad Marxist-Leninist
overview and analysis of
* the major structural features of the present all-round global
capitalist crisis. In the 2007 Programme the SACP was the first
formation in SA to underline the systematic and likely enduring
nature of the crisis, which was only then just becoming visible. In
this version we take this analysis further, underlining why it is
imperative to advance a serious, *post-capitalist alternative*;
* the historical legacy deeply embedded in our contemporary South
African reality, that continues to shape many systemic features
embedded in our economy and broader society;
* the SACP's key strategic approach to advancing the struggle through
a national democratic revolution *in alliance with our tripartite
partners* as the most direct *road to socialism *in our country;
* a broad outline of lessons learnt and challenges prevailing in
transforming the state;
* the key challenges we confront in transforming our economy from its
*dependent-development growth path to a new developmental* path that
is job-creating and that is capable of addressing our people's
social needs and
* the struggle to transform the workplace; our communities; and the
critical battle of ideas.
The Draft Programme *is not* a detailed programme of action, nor does it
embody specific resolutions on key economic policy matters for instance,
or on key campaigning issues, or on organizational Party-building -
these are all further tasks for the 13th Congress. The Draft Programme
is designed to lay the broad Strategic framework for a more specific
Programme of Action and campaigning and organizational agenda.
The revisions and additions in this Draft Programme largely reflect our
conviction that since 2007 there has been important if contested
progress within our broad liberation movement, and in the evolution of
government policy. These positive developments have been in no small pan
due to the principled interventions made by the SACP, guided by the
perspectives of our 2007 Programme. In the months and years following
our 12th congress, *the Party's interventions led to the displacement of
the "1996 class project"* within our movement and within leading state
circles. The displacement of this revisionist tendency has brought new
ideological and political challenges, and these are analysed in this new
draft Programme.
Central to the entire strategic thrust of the Draft Programme is *the
SACP's Medium Term Vision document* and its call to build working class
hegemony in every site of power - in the state, in the work-place and in
the economy at large, in our communities, in the battle of ideas and
moral values, and in the struggle for a better, a socialist world,
The main objective of our 13th SACP Congress will be to advance a
further 5-year programme of action. Our programme of action must give
concrete direction on how we advance the objectives of our Medium Term
Vision of building working class hegemony in all key sites of power,
based, in turn, on our broad strategic vision of the Road to South
African Socialism.
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*Transcribed from PDF document available at:
http://www.sacp.org.za/docs/docs/2012/draftpol2012.pdf*
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