Dear Cde Sandile,
I have tried to look at co-ops as part of the CU course on "Development".
See here:
*http://cuafrica.blogspot.com/2012/02/co-operatives-or-proteges.html*
And here:
*http://cuafrica.blogspot.com/2012/02/lenin-co-ops-work-under-working-class.html*
There is nothing inherently socialist about co-operatives, in my opinion.
In fact, all of the elements of capitalist business exist within co-ops,
and co-ops that operate in a capitalist economies have no other
conceivable destiny other than to become more and more bourgeois, in my
opinion.
I would like to hear your opinion about what I have written in the
material linked above, as well as the documents from Marx (Critique of
the Gotha Programme) and Lenin (On Co-operation) that my writing introduces.
We can take it from there.
I don't think we have a duty to sell co-operatives as an idea. We have
more of a duty to look at what is happening in class terms.
VC
On 2012/12/28 01:48 PM, Sandile khumalo wrote:
Dear Comrade VC
Have you ever prepared any course on the cooperative movement? It's
history, legislation, philosophy, management ect.
I would to include this module in my Districts Political Education Course.
Regards
Sandile
On 21 Dec 2012, at 8:04 AM, VC <[email protected]
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*Short Report on the Communist University*
/This has been the year of SACP Provincial Congresses, of the
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21 December 2012
VC
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