[Marxism] ANC govt terrified of music, says Hugh Masekela [?!?!]

[Ambrose Andrews]

On 10/08/07, Walter Lippmann <walterlx at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> When we read that South Africa's government is "a harsh neoliberal
> capitalist regime that is now Washington's appointed major partner on
> the African continent", one wonders what the author has been smoking?
>

Fresh Blue-mountains air, I guess.

> "Washington's appointed major partner?"?!?!?!?!? Somehow I thought
> that places like Cairo and Lagos and Yamoussouko were of greater
> importance on the African continent?
>
> DOES WASHINGTON'S APPOINTED MAJOR PARTNER DO THIS?????
> South Africa and Hamas
> Why Jewish S. African minister forms friendships with Israel's enemies
> Kransdorff, Magid Published:  05.30.07, 08:14 / Israel Opinion
> http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3405940,00.html
>
> Washington's appointed major partner even has relations with that
> pesky little place whose name we won't mention here but the one
> with the four-letter name whose first letter is "C" and isn't Chad?
>

Australia has relations with the country not known as Chad, the UK has
relations with that country not known as Chad.  Hope that observation
doesn't make me a Spartacist.

As far as I was aware, Most years the US is numerically utterly
marginalised in the Annual UN vote on the Blockade.   Its hardly a
useful ruler to measure with.

> The use of such wild rhetoric means that, as a socialist, indeed a
> revoloootionry socialist, a Marxist, he favors the overthrow of the
> South African Government and its prompt replacement by a socialist
> government more to his liking. Words have meaning and consequences.
>
> As yet this is the first time outside of the Spartacist press that
> I've seen such a clearly-expressed program, so Norm's put this out
> so forthrightly is to be appreciated. If this rhetoric is to be at
> all taken seriously, it's a call for the formation of a brand new
> revoloootionry party in South Africa which would fight for there
> to be a socialist revoloootion there, or perhaps Norm exaggerates?
>
> There hasn't been a socialist revolution in South Africa, but no
> one ever claimed their has been, so what is our critic arguing so
> fiercely against?

Umm, the ANC's enthusiastic implementation of its neoliberal program?

Is this forbidden until someone claims South Africa has had a
socialist revolution??

  -AA.

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