The concerns by many elites regarding the imminent and real negative impact on our economy and that of the continent by the workers mass protests in many strategic sectors of our South African economy are interesting, indeed the impact of an unstable economy is never something to wish for and needs to be avoided. The question however is in whose interest must they be avoided in the current phase? But most importantly at whose expense must they be avoided? The recent revelation that South Africa is the most unequal country in terms of income disparities and quality of life points to the simple fact that there are those who are in minority who stand to continue benefiting the most from the so called stable and growing economy whilst the majority of our people continue to experience further consolidation of poverty and destituteness. My honest and perhaps economically naïve view is that there is a need for a total overhaul of the economic configuration of this country and it can never happen under the current socio-politico-economic conditions. It is common knowledge that it is craziness to keep repeating the same thing and hope for different results, until and unless there is a genuine drive to alter the accumulation patterns in this country by the ruling elites, then the workers and the poor will have no choice but take the struggle upon themselves!! The concerns about the negative impact of the mass actions by labour are narrow and misplaced because they assume that capital will collapse under the very conditions it has flourished over the years, which takes me back to my earlier question: In whose interest and at whose expense is the stability of the economy in the long term? Capital will inevitably attempt to collapse any economy that wants to overhaul its long standing and recorded vicious roots and existence and it should not come as a surprise that the actions of the workers and the poor will invite the short term wrath of capital as witnessed, albeit under different circumstances, in our revolutionary sister country Zimbabwe!! In the absence of any promising argument that agitates for total overall and transformation of the accumulation patterns then the workers and the poor must never be castigated for it is them who feel the real negative impact of the so called stable economy. I say forward to workers unity forward!! Qina Msebenzi Qina!! Amandla…Ke tjho the!!
Posted on: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 09:25:33 +0000
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