I refer to the letter from Councillor Rawlins published on September 12.
As proletariats, it is our concern to trace in this history of South Africa with European modernity, the lineaments of Rawlins’ political and intellectual thought and the continuities and discontinuities of African tradition and culture.
To be an African is beyond occupying space on this continent, but to embroil Ubuntu and understand the national and class question. Ubuntu sees people less as individuals than as part of an infinitely complex web of other human beings. The national question, your failure to understand the class content of the national question and the national content of the class question makes mockery of your chosen fascist outlook.
Your posture seeks to undermine our legislative chambers as a theatre of struggles for socio-economic transformation of society. To say the SA president is an ‘intellectual pygmy’ is a political epiphany that carries baggage of historical continuities. To accuse the president of being a vacuous churn, venery and venality.
Our task is to expose the acts of hypocrisy by the fascists, your interest represents of monopoly capital to undermine the struggle for today, liberation of the people of our country. Mr Rawlins should dissuade the fascism tendency of national arrogance, pendency and racial tones, because they are the main characteristic features of fascist chauvinism.
The ANC, in this context, is adjudged to be talking for the collective that is black and stupid. Therefore it deserves to be vilified. Fundamentally this is an attempt to silence the African majority in line with the fallacious theory that our democracy is not about majority (numbers), but values. This means, in real terms, that votes are weighed in terms of those who are propertied, resourced and organised against those who are without these.
In fact, it is the combination of numbers add values. The National Democratic Revolution led by the ANC is sage, the ANC understands revolution. Radical and accelerated social transformation are made in specific circumstances, they rarely, if ever, emerge fully ripe, and not all the details can be scientifically foreseen. They are made from passion, from improvisation of human beings in the struggle for social change, they are never perfect or infallible.
Lenin once said, ‘No force of earth is capable of taking from us the principle gains of our revolution for they are no more ours but have become the gains of world history’. Mr Rawlins, our struggle is struggling against memory loss and memory is forward-looking remembering with the purpose of serving as a propellant to force us to look back so we do not repeat our atrocities and enmity.
Karl Marx always reminds us that those who control the base production also control the super structure ideas. Mr Rawlins, figuratively, the dictatorship of the proletariats has begun its march for total emancipation of working class from the yoke of underdevelopment, inequality and poverty – is inexorable. Aluta continua.
MJEQEZI
SACP
