Cde Ebrahim, I know that you are a researcher, well on top of the data and all that. Maximum respect. But don't you think that this meeting is going to be much more political, and not very utilitarian? Or am I wrong about that?
By the way, I appreciate that you are a philosopher, too. Hence I think you can give us a very good answer. Let me lead a little: Clearly, the three alliance partners state their goals in very different terms. Yet, the theory of NDR, and the actually-existing National Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, are flexible enough to accommodate all of these rubrics, and still produce a substantial unity-in-action that will be capable of embracing the NDP and going forward. Or not? Your thoughts? VC On 30 August 2013 10:43, Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen <[email protected]> wrote: > Read the OFFICIAL development indicators 2012 as well. Good progress on > outputs (like housing, water) but bad progress on outcomes (unemployment, > poverty, inequality, jobs). > > http://www.thepresidency-dpme.gov.za/dpmewebsite/NewsView.aspx?newsId=%2070 > > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:40 AM, VC <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ** ** >> >> *Reading for the Alliance Summit** * >> >> ** ** >> >> *Starting today, 30 August 2013* >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> [image: 2 triangles.jpg]**** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> *“The German labour movement… assumes the peculiar form of a double >> pyramid whose base and body consist of one solid mass but whose apexes are >> wide apart… To desire the unity of these through the union of the party >> executive and the general commission is to desire to build a bridge at the >> very spot where the distance is greater and the crossing more difficult. >> Not above, amongst the heads of the leading directing organisations and in >> their federative alliance, but below, amongst the organised proletarian >> masses, lies the guarantee of the real unity of the labour movement.”* >> >> *Rosa Luxemburg, “The Mass Strike”,** Chapter 8:* >> >> *“Need for United Action of Trade Unions and Social Democracy”* >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> *SACP, South African Road to Socialism (see Chapters 4 and 5, attached):* >> >> ** ** >> >> *“The SACP has consistently believed that it is possible and necessary >> to advance and develop a national democratic revolutionary strategy of >> this kind that unites, in action, a range of classes and social strata. We >> have also always believed that within our South African reality, unless the >> working class builds its hegemony in every site of power, and unless >> socialist ideas, values, organisation and activism boldly assert >> themselves, the NDR will lose its way and stagnate.”* >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> *ANC, Strategy and Tactics Preface, 2012 (attached):* >> >> ** ** >> >> *The Preface aims to assist in the interpretation of Strategy and >> Tactics 2007 against the backdrop of the task of ensuring decisive >> and accelerated progress towards the eradication of the legacy of apartheid >> colonialism and the construction of a National Democratic Society. * >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> *COSATU, Resolution of extended Political Commission on the NDP, 6 June >> 2013, extracts transcribed from hard copy:* >> >> ** ** >> >> *The ANC… have committed the movement to drive a radical economic shift >> as the main content of the second phase of our transition. COSATU adopted >> resolutions strongly endorsing this strategic perspective. * >> >> * * >> >> *Without fundamental transformation of ownership and control of the >> economy, especially the nationalization of strategic sectors, as envisaged >> in the Freedom Charter, there is no prospect of radical economic >> transformation.* >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> **** >> >> >> __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus >> signature database 8743 (20130830) __________ >> >> The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. >> >> http://www.eset.com >> >> -- >> -- >> 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. 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