[DEBATE] : (Fwd) Cosatu crits WSF for Morocco venue

[peter waterman]

Dominic:

Thank you for explaining to us dummies - by tautology - the intended 
meaning of a slogan or mantra of the hegemonic tripartite coalition in SAf.

In the spirit of Marx ('Criticise Everything') however, does it not 
behove us to judge discourse against structures and processes - not to 
speak of employment, Mercedes ownership, wealth distribution, handling 
of AIDS, and class relations?

What appears to me to be actually happening in South Africa is a 
National Liberal Democratic Revolution, although, evidently, of a 
'special type'. One of its special characteristics might require Neo- 
before Liberal. The other is 'Reform', or even 'Process', in place of 
'Revolution'.

Constant repetition of this last word, 15 years after the event (50 in 
the case of Cuba), only robs 'Revolution' of any commonsense or 
theoretical meaning, making it, in practice, whatever the President, 
vanguard party or tripartite alliance wants to justify today (even if 
this represents a turning upside down (revolution?) compared with what 
was said yesterday.

Pw


Dominic Tweedie wrote:
> What we are going through is called a National Democratic Revolution.
>
> It means that we are creating a national democracy
> .
>
>   

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