 Under Blade, the SACP has lost its edge Thabang Ngwenya, Letters, The Star, Johannesburg, 16 December 2009 I attended the SACP's congress for the fifth time since its unbanning. This was the biggest gathering of the "communists", but the quality was at its lowest. Many of the young "communists" and those from Cosatu are ignorant of Marxism-Leninism. They enjoyed toyi-toying and booing. Debates centred on what SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande said and on bashing former president Thabo Mbeki, the ruling party or ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema. Since 1921, communists have produced quality leadership: David Ivon Jones, Bob Hepple, Johannes Nkosi, J B Marks, Moses Kotane, Govan Mbeki, Harry Gwala, Joe Slovo and Jack Simons. The communists now number 96 000, but there's no quality. This tells you that Nzimande is the king in the land of the blind. Many of the attendees did not read reports and could not sing The Internationale. They could not take part in real economic debate, so many were calling for nationalisation of even wealth accumulated by ANC people. In the commission I attended, delegates, apart from senior ANC and Cosatu leaders, could not understand what we meant by monopoly capital and globalisation. Half of the delegates in my commission did not know who was the longest-serving SACP secretary-general. Is this the result of massification of the party or a deliberate loading of the party with ignorant members? Interestingly, 40 percent of SACP members are not ANC or Cosatu members. Are they workerists or ultraleft or members of Cope or the IFP? If the SACP wants to nationalise or socialise key industries and banks, will Nzimande rely on these SACP members to run industries and banks? How many have qualifications in business administration, accounting and economics? Even the Black Management Forum members are more aspirant bourgeoisie than socialists. Put it this way, can socialism be implemented by those delegates at the SACP conference? Are these delegates future councillors and MPs, or just Nzimande's cheerleaders? Just to remind readers who have abandoned the SACP: Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Tony Yengeni, Mac Maharaj, Pravin Gordhan, Alec Erwin, Cheryl Carolus, Tito Mboweni, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, Charles Nqakula and Jeff Radebe. They know that there will be no socialism in the next 300 years. Thabang Ngwenya Benoni North -- 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] . |
