President Zuma's Speech at the Funeral of J B Marks
Some of the unscripted parts: . Proposal for joint meeting of NEC, CEC and CC . Remarks on the South African Communist Party Proposal for joint meeting The President said that everything should be brought out into the open at such a meeting. The following are the President's words as quoted by Penwell Dlamini in The Times: "You are not aware how much our enemies are mobilising to destroy us. If we are divided, we are easy prey." "With the arrival of the two [Marks and Moses Kotane], all of us in the ANC, SACP and COSATU are going to turn a new page. "Perhaps the central committees of all the three must have a joint meeting to discuss the needs of the alliance. Not just [for] one day. We should go away for the whole week." "Unconsciously, you are dividing the movement. If I have a clear understanding I can't be party to disunity. Leaders cannot resist when they are being called to come together as one. [But] they resist because they have very strong views about so and so." "If the ANC is the leader of the alliance, be ready for a very serious instruction of this [special] meeting. "We need to talk [at the special meeting] about things we cannot talk about in public. Things talked about in corridors, we need to talk about these things openly in the meeting. I think the time has come." Remarks on the South African Communist Party President Zuma said that communists of the past such as J B Marks and Moses Kotane wanted socialism, now. The President said that these comrades did not talk about building socialism so that we could have it in the future. Cde Zuma said that capitalism is a dictatorship. It tells you everything. It tells you, for example, the price of a loaf of bread. The President asked: What is socialism? He said it is defined as "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his work". That is a dictatorship of the proletariat, said the President. Afterwards, it could be changed into "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" (becoming a classless society, communism). The President said that the capitalist dictatorship is full of crises, all the time, going all the way up to war. The President said that the SACP members should be in the structures of the ANC so that they can perform their vanguard function properly. He said that the communists had the highest understanding of politics, beyond which there is nothing else. VC -- -- 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] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
