Cde VC, You have made my work very easy. I think the discussions we should engage upon should be informed by the extent to which we would like to multiply communists.
Isnt it time to produce as many communists as we can through a gradual change in our education system? Cant we change Principals to School Managers who will understand the 'South African Road to Socialism'? Isnt it time to ensure that Principals are not teachers but Programme Managers who will carry the transformational mandate without a teaching background? I am raising this issue because the minister of basic education raised an issue of changing the current system. Cant we take advantage of the situation now to persue an agenda that will multiply those who will understand communism. Marx understood that a revolution is broad and needs the entire nation to be part of it, why cant we use our education to ensure that we multiply communists? Thats just my thought. Asikhulume! On 11/17/09, Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]> wrote: > Cde Pres., comrades, > > This is an old problem. The first draft of the Communist Manifesto that was > published in 1848 was in catechism (nowadays called FAQs) form. It was never > printed in Marx's or Engels' lifetime. In other words, they discarded it. It > can be found here. > > The following is a later introduction to that draft, written for an > English-language edition of it published in China some years ago: > > In 1847 Engels wrote two draft programmes for the Communist League in the > form of a catechism, one in June and the other in October. The latter, which > is known as Principles of Communism, was first published in 1914. The > earlier document Draft of the Communist Confession of Faith, was only found > in 1968. It was first published in 1969 in Hamburg, together with four other > documents pertaining to the first congress of the Communist League, in a > booklet entitled Gründungs Dokumente des Bundes der Kommunisten (Juni bis > September 1847) (Founding Documents of the Communist League). > > At the June 1847 Congress of the League of the Just, which was also the > founding conference of the Communist League, it was decided to issue a draft > “confession of faith” to be submitted for discussion to the sections of the > League. The document which has now come to light is almost certainly this > draft. Comparison of the two documents shows that Principles of Communism is > a revised edition of this earlier draft. InPrinciples of Communism, Engels > left three questions unanswered, in two cases with the notation “unchanged” > (bleibt); this clearly refers to the answers provided in the earlier draft. > > The new draft for the programme was worked out by Engels on the instructions > of the leading body of the Paris circle of the Communist League. The > instructions were decided on after Engles’ sharp criticism at the committee > meeting, on October 22, 1847, of the draft programme drawn up by the “true > socialist” Moses Hess, which was then rejected. > > Still considering Principles of Communism as a preliminary draft, Engels > expressed the view, in a letter to Marx dated November 23-24 1847, that it > would be best to drop the old catechistic form and draw up a programme in > the form of a manifesto. > > “Think over the Confession of Faith a bit. I believe we had better drop the > catechism form and call the thing: Communist Manifesto. As more or less > history has got to be related in it, the form it has been in hitherto is > quite unsuitable. I am bringing what I have done here with me; it is in > simple narrative form, but miserably worded, in fearful haste. ...” > > > That's how we ended up with the 1848 Communist Manifesto - which is itself > divided into three, different, overlapping forms, as if they just lashed > three drafts together, but leaving out the fourth, catechism-style one. > > The SACP currently has the "South African Road to Socialism", but the > document that is given on the SACP web site is the June, 2007 draft (Bua > Komanisi), and not the one that was finally issued by the 12th SACP National > Congress in July of that year, which, however, does exist. I have a > photocopy of it, but not an electronic copy. > > Similarly, the MTV (Medium Term Vision) of the SACP is practically > impossible to locate as a definitive document in any format. > > It is a problem with the SACP at present. It was not always so. There was > once a document called "The Road to South African Freedom", and later > another one called "The Path to Power". > > Maybe it is deliberate. The fact that there are no pat answers forces people > to get down and discuss what they really stand for. It forces us towards > Freirean methodology and dialogue, and it forces us back to the classics, > such as the "Communist Manifesto", Marx's "Capital", and Lenin's "The State > and Revolution". > > If that is the reason why we don't have anything corresponding to "What is > ANC?", then it maybe it is a good thing. > > VC > > > > > > > sabelo gina wrote: >> >> Hi Chief, >> >> The SACP has structures in KZN, ad it has a provincial organiser. >> >> Please communicate through them. >> >> Comradely, >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:45 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Cadres >>> >>> We are on a mission to form the branch of the SACP in one of the very >>> rural areas in KZN. 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