Cadres. Your input in this regard is commendable. I new that if I network with you, i will get the proper information. As I speak, cde Mondli has already engaged the Lower South Cost Region who also ensured his support in the course. I think we are going somewhere now. The political (socialism) knowledge will reach those people. I will also foward these views to Cde Nkwezy in Jozini to pursue, as he did when he and other comrades formed the ANC in that area. Amandla maqabane!!!!!!
> > 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. May you please assist with basic document(s) of >>>> the >>>> Party. The document(s) will assist us to share knowledge and in an >>>> further >>>> understanding of the charecter of our Communists Party. 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