[DEBATE] : Zille on Constitutional politics

[Dominic Tweedie]

As Moloantoa Molaba always puts it:

Amandla!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


2008/7/23 Azwell Banda <azwell at ecsecc.org>:

> A very cynical and clever use of political language, by the defender of SA
> liberal capitalism, below.
>
> Liberation struggles are not about "attaining power" as the Zille puts it -
> so as to demonise the struggle for power by liberation movements.
>
> Rather, liberation struggles are about the restoration of their humanity to
> those who have lost it, including through the violent liberal destruction
> of
> their humanity, no matter how cleverly concealed such deadly invasions of
> the humanity of others may be.
>
> One of the greatest tragedies of our times is that the legitimate struggles
> to restore, to win back their humanity from exploitation, oppression,
> gender
> and all sorts of states of unfreedom, the majority of the people of SA
> ended
> up with a "Constitutional democracy" rather than liberation and real
> freedom.
>
> SA is said to be a "Constitutional democracy" in which the liberal
> capitalist constitution whose chief purpose is to protect the collective
> class interests of the ruling elites is supreme.
>
> Can someone tell me: how did it happen that the struggling masses got
> replaced by a liberal constitution?
>
> Hugs,
>
> Azwell.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-07-23-anc-going-the-way-of-old-national-par
> ty-says-zille
>
> "Liberation struggles are about attaining power. Constitutional
> democracy is about limiting power. Very few activists who have engaged
> in liberation struggles understand this distinction, and they
> therefore cannot make the transition to the next stage of
> development."
>
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