Path to socialism: The different levels of engagement
Any struggle has its engagement levels. The struggle for socialism is no exception. Material conditions will always determine how the enemy is to be engaged at each particular point. It is for this reason that a firm decision was taken to form Umkonto WeSizwe to engage the enemy militarily, whilst the preceding years had mostly been mainly been occupied by peaceful defiance campaigns. In the past twenty years of our democracy, we have engaged the enemy using worded arguments, in the main. We have carefully avoided the use of revolutionary violence in our furtherance of the National Democratic Revolution. Material conditions dictated that we strive to win the battle of ideas using the tools of engagement relevant and available to us. However, the bourgeois class has raised its game to very high levels. It is important that we meet that level as well. It is a known historical fact that one of the reasons the colonialists won the Wars of Dispossession against Africans was that the colonialists had an unmatched firepower compared to the Africans. Thus, it is important that in our path to socialism, a very rocky path, we match the bourgeois class’ firepower, if not better it. Observing the behaviour of the bourgeoisie, together with all counter-revolutionary movements like the EFF and others, it is clear that at some point the use of gun power will be necessary for the struggle for socialism. In fact, this level of engagement is unavoidable, is necessary and inevitable in any path to socialism. A Communist Party worth its salt will necessarily have to be ready to engage the enemy militarily and install its command if the working class is to truly be in charge and in control of the means of production in the country. Material conditions necessitated that the Red Army of Russia, under the decisive leadership of Lenin, engage the counter-revolutionary White Army militarily in the early 1920s to ensure true Soviet power. It would be naïve of us to believe that the bourgeoisie will submit to working class hegemony merely by their defeat in the battle of ideas. They must also be defeated militarily. It is a known fact that the EFF is NOT a Marxist-Leninist party. It is not even close to that. In fact it fights against anything Marxist, having been sponsored by imperialist forces to disturb the ongoing path to socialism. No matter how loud the current Irvin Jim-led phrasemongers can be about socialism, they are not Marxist-Leninists. If they were then will they form another Communist Party of South Africa? No! Their aim is to derail any gain that has been made by the tried and tested [Marxist-Leninist] Communist Party of South Africa, whilst fragmenting the working class in the process, something which is totally against Marxism-Leninism. Thus, as we move forward with the struggle for socialism we must bear in mind the next level of engagement; military warfare! In any event, no system, from slavery to capitalism [and to socialism], has ever been destroyed merely by winning debates in the battle of ideas. Thabo Thwala Bothaville -- -- 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] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
