If you're in New York at John Jay College today, join us at the Left
Forum to consider South Africa, first as subimperial wannabe within
BRICS (and, ahem, briber of FIFA for the 2010 World Cup), then as the
site of revived socialist hopes:
3:15-5pm: "Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism Today", in 8.72
5:10-6:50pm: "The Unfinished Revolution: South Africa Today", in 1.109
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Coming soon to http://monthlyreview.org/
*Exploding with rage, imploding with self-doubt – but exuding socialist
potential*
/Monthly Review, /June 2015
The fast-reviving South African left is urgently coming to grips with
the most acute national crises of structure and agency experienced here
since the African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party
(SACP) and leaders like Nelson Mandela were freed in February 1990.
Recall that the ANC soon took control of the country’s progressive
forces, winning mass social hegemony, vanquishing other liberation
tendencies (PanAfricanism and Black Consciousness), dissolving the
anti-apartheid United Democratic Front (UDF) of civil society activists
founded a decade earlier, and then negotiating the first democratic
election which it won handily in April 1994 under Nelson Mandela’s
leadership. Afrikaner state managers and corporate titans, as well as
multilateral agencies and other forces of imperialism, demanded from the
ANC an elite transition that opened both the macro and micro economies.
Property rights were granted maximum protection even though the bulk of
these were acquired by whites through what is widely termed a crime
against humanity, apartheid.
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