Permanent Revolution must systematical take to task Let me take this opportunity to congratulate SACP Provincial Committee led by cde Xolile Nqatha, for brilliant idea to launch Financial Sector Campaign Coalition, in the Eastern Cape. The Coalition will be the vehicle for the working class and the poor to pick up their arms and continue the struggle of radical economic change, against the necromancy of capitalist bosses,in Credit bureau sector. I also hope the Coalition will take us through and make us aware about the stages of class project (1996 GEAR policy) which drove our country to this mess of “neo-liberal” system. This project has crisis today. Objectively, restored capitalist profitability has more aggressively reproduced the crises of underdevelopment with unemployment problem,thousands of workers ‘casualized’ , apparently more than one million farm workers and their families removed off ,from farms. The privileged axis between the political elite and political stratum has also resulted in unending saga of corruption and other scandals. Some of these contradictions and tensions have resulted in worrying signs of factionalism within key apparatuses. I also believe in the process left needs to be in the forefront of the struggle against corruption in general and we must treat corruption as societal matter. However I tempted to make my contribute, on enthusiastic points has been raised by CC member cde Charlies Setsubi on energetic programme of permanent revolution, during Provincial Organizational Review workshop. The permanent revolution in the sense which Karl Marx attached to this concept, means a revolution which makes no compromise with single form of class rule, which does not stop at the democratic stage, which goes over to socialist measures and to war against reaction from without ;that is a revolution whose every successive stage is rooted in the preceding one and which can end only in complete liquidation of class society. To dispel the chaos that has been created around the theory of permanent revolution ,it is necessary to distinguish three lines of thought that are united in this theory. It embrace the problem of transition from the democratic revolution to the the socialist . This is in essence the historical origin of the theory. The theory of the permanent revolution, which originated in 1905, declare war upon these ideas and moods. It pointed out that the democratic tasks of the backward bourgeois nations led directly, in our epoch, to the dictatorship of proletariat and that the dictatorship of the proletariat puts socialist tasks on the order of the day. Same year of 1905, Soviet has regarded as the most important year, Vladimir Lenin wrote a pamphlets “What is to be done” base on disillusion condition emerged and predicted that “ the first wave of the next revolution will lead to the creation of Soviet all over the country”. This was to happen in February 1917 In the South African political context, I believe theory of permanent revolution apply’s to our minds, on national democratic revolution because it requires a major transformational process to achieve its strategic objective. In earlier decades the ANC always correctly insisted that ours was not a civil right struggle. While civil rights are critically important, our strategic national objective was never understood to be a struggle simply for the “inclusion” of the black majority, by providing them rights within what were then the existing structures of power. It was never a case of struggling to make apartheid structures more representative. We understood very clearly that the structures of power (whether racial,class or patriarchal) had themselves to be thoroughly transformed. However since 1994 and particularly in the decisive area of economic power, there have been strong tendencies to slide backwards into exactly that kind of right-based,“representative” inclusion. What are the key principles that we need to keep in mind addressing the notion of state and revolution,an issue that has occupied the mind of revolutionaries over the centuries? This captured succinctly by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels in the 1872 preface to German edition of the Communist Manifesto, after the attempt at a proletarian revolution through the Paris Commune: One thing especially was proved by Commune,viz that the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery and wield it for its own purposes’. Lenin in his book ,State and Revolution “ the working class must break up smash the readymade state machinery and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it. Their approach is premised on the understanding that the class instrument to pursue and defend class and class interests. The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,Marx and Engels do argue that the state as superstructure phenomenon, can enjoy some autonomy from the economic base or from the main classes (the phenomenon of Bonapartism) an observation that is of relevance to understanding some of the development states in 20th century. Furthermore SACP has a responsibility to unite all civil society organization to campaign against three imperial institutions, World Bank, IMF and WTO. Which throttles our South African government,to pay apartheid debt. Thanks Regards Thabang Maseko EC Young Communist League SA Spokesperson
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:59:28 +0000
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