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Extract from Jeremy Cronin's article Published in The New Age today, 12 January 2015 The CU's free subscription to "The New Age" e-newspaper has expired. Hence it becomes more difficult to bring you articles from this relatively progressive newspaper. Below is an extract from Jeremy Cronin's New Age article of today's date, called "The SACP goes to the root", transcribed from the hard copy, for the sake of debate. 'In October the SACP published a discussion document. titled "Going to the root - a radical second phase of the NDR - its context, content, and our strategic tasks." 'The nub of the document's argument is that our persisting socio-economic crises are attributable to an untransformed growth path, dominated by monopoly capital, involving massive capital flight post-1994. Many of the key programmes required to radically transform this reality are already in place. What is now needed is a major struggle to ensure much greater strategic coherence and popular mobilization to advance, deepen and defend these programmes. 'They include a much greater focus on the productive economy, placing it on a new growth path, through re-industrialisation premised on more efficient beneficiation of our mineral resources, skills training, new, more egalitarian patterns of urbanisation, rural reform and sustainable livelihood strategies in the context of a social or solidarity economic sector. We need to increasingly de-commodify many basic needs, including work itself, affirming the value of useful work that isn't employment by a boss, in a co-operative or a public works programme, for instance.' VC Allow me to propose some questions: 1. What is a "growth path"? Alternatively, what is a "new growth path"? 2. Does de-commodified work just mean unpaid work? Let's discuss. -- -- 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.
