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From: Jeje Yaqub <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Fri, March 19, 2010 6:51:27 PM
Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] Why is Floyd Shivambu digging for dirt on
journos?
I think some will want us to treat Floyd's personal response to cde Domza as a
view of the YL,like they usually do when chickens comes home to roast. Cde
Floyd has correctly quoted Marx on the question of the dominant ideas in every
epoch, again he is correct to say the media is reactionary and it also serves
the interests of the ruling class. The fundamental question that comes to mind
is, what fraction of the state does the opposite of what the media does.
Without making an application of being called ultra left, I find it seriously
disturbing when cdes becomes selective on issues. I differ fundamentally with
anyone who thinks that journalists and not the media, serves the interests of
the ruling class. This is the same mistake or ideology error made by uTrotsky
saying police(workers in the armed forces) cannot be working class as they
serve the enemy class. The question is not about where are you employed but
about the entire class struggle. And in
any case the working class comprise of the workers (journalists included) and
the poor, therefore such cannot be seen as reactionary by anyone who claims to
be communist.
Cde Floyd, i would not entertain your position about the role played by cde VC
for history has taught me not to engage on petty struggles for such might
alienate one from the entire collective. As you state that journalists are
agents of capitalists, I'm not sure what informs your undialectical conclusion
but however I don't believe you might think that workers are agents of the
bourgeoisie simply because of the conditions they find themselves in. If cde
Floyd were to be reminded or taught, the struggle is not waged on conditions of
our own making (we do not choose the material conditions).
Can cde Floyd or anyone who thinks journalists are agents of capitalism please
inform me what role is parliament playing in this whole debacle.
Is parliament not advancing the interest of the bourgeoisie, is our liberal
education system not serving as agents of capitalist mental reproduction. Is it
not maximization of profit through maximum exploitation that ensures capitalism
remains the order of the day. Can capitalism exploit its own agents and if so,
then what is the role of communists as they happen to be the vanguard of the
working class. Is it not the intention of the bourgeoisie to divide the
proletariat (journalists included) so that the program of making them more
docile and easier to exploit economically can be realised without any
resistance.
If journalists and any worker serving in any section of the state are to be
seen as agents of capitalism, then who stands to be mobilized by the communists
in our struggle for socialism. Cde Floyd's analysis are absolutely inaccurate,
they in fact serve the purpose of the bourgeoisie as they seek to alienate some
sections of the workers from the entire working class contingent. Cde Floyd
appears to me as an ideology vendor of every description, who is more mobilized
than ever to convince young people that our only struggle is to defeat
journalists and be good citizens. There has been a major shift from the side of
Floyd as a communist into the ranks of our class enemies. Journalism can not be
seen by young people as a reactionary career simply because of the apolitical
and unscrupulous attitude of the YL towards journos.
Let us refrain from confusing personality cults with umzabalazo for such
defeats the overall objective of all revolutionaries.
Cde Floyd consciously chose individuals and friends at the expense of the
revolution. He has forgotten the main reasons that made him join the
revolution, but in anycase the reasons initially had nothing to do with
personality cult or bling, they had everything to do with the interests of
workers that he chose to intimidate now of late. I therefore recommend that cde
Floyd should undergo a process of self cultivation in order to save himself and
any other young communist lost in the process. His primary goal has never been
bourgeois democracy but socialism which I still believe is.
Get your facts straight commandante and vacate the area you find yourself in,
for it does you no good but corrupts your soul.
Marx also said that "workers of the world unite" and such includes anyone who
owns no means of production but live by selling his/her capacity to work And
journalists meet the criteria.
Remember cdes not to qoute Marx or any other great revolutionary in a selective
manner, for such is the recipe of distortion and fabrication. It will also
result one in to being a revisionist of the worst kind that I doubt you may
want to be.
The media serves the same purpose as parliament does and cde Floyd's silence on
the latter is very loud. The last time I checked, it was the state that serves
as a machinery to protect
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From: Nyiko Floyd Shivambu <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thu, March 18, 2010 1:01:02 PM
Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] Why is Floyd Shivambu digging for dirt on
journos?
"The individuals composing the ruling class possess among other things
consciousness, and therefore think. Insofar, therefore, as they rule as a class
and determine the extent and compass of an epoch, it is self-evident that they
do this in its whole range, hence among other things rule also as thinkers, as
producers of ideas, and regulate the production and distribution of the ideas
of their age: thus their ideas are the ruling ideas of the epoch"......
This stems from a correct scientific discovery by a revolutionary scientific
socialist, Karl Marx, whose correct observation was that "the ideas of a the
ruling class are in every epoch, the ruling ideas". I am now worried that
Dominic (whom you refer to as VC) is misguiding 'commmunists" to defend
Journalists, who in a capitalist society are agents of the capitalist mental
reproduction. factionalism has potential to annihiliate our organisation.
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