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

[Walter Lippmann]

Now we are clearly getting somewhere. In 1969 the ANC adopted a 
program. In 1994, following an unsuccessful armed struggle where
the Umkhonto We Sizwe never once fought the armed forces of the
South African state to a military defeat or even a stalemate,
the ANC-led governmend didn't carry out in 1994 what they had 
proposed in 1969. The ANC had the support of the masses of black
South Africans, but they weren't militarily strong enough to 
defeat the apartheid regime in armed combat. The perfectionists
fault them for that, and, hey, we're living in a free country in
which anyone can say what they wish. But what should the have done
when they couldn't win the armed struggle and their principal top
main central leaders were all in prison? It's always easier in 
light of 20-20 hindsight what should have been done. Here in the
U.S. we call that Monday morning quarterbacking. Usually that
happens on Monday of the current week, not over a decade before,
however.

Don't forget an even more gross betrayal, the Freedom Charter, which
the ANC, in coalition with white and colored groups adopted in 1955.

And those masochists at the ANC even make it easy for us to go back
and see the extent of the betrayal by leaving it posted on their site:
http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/charter.html

With this handy tool, anyone with a computer and internet access can
get a price measuring rod of the full extent of the ANC's betrayal!
<g> [Private to Danielle: this is a snide, sarcastic remark.]

Of course, one or two things had changed between 1969 and 1994, like
the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1969 they probably had the idea
that the USSR could have helped them out. By 1994, they couldn't have
that thought. But more importantly, they made a deal to transfer the
control of the administration of the state to the black-led ANC while
leaving the class nature of the state unchanged. As has been repeated
repeatedly, over and over and over, no socialist revolution was made.


Walter Lippmann
Disneylandia, California


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LOUIS PROYECT writes:
They can speak for themselves, but I would criticize the ANC for 
flushing its historic program down the toilet. Instead of pushing for 
sweeping economic reforms once in office, it decided to adopt the same 
economic program as the old regime--maybe worse. You'll note that in 
"Intensify the Revolution," a resolution adopted by the 1969 ANC 
Conference, there is a specific call for not resting "formal political 
democracy". It states "Our drive towards national emancipation is 
therefore in a very real way bound up with economic emancipation."

LOUIS PROYECT cites:
full: http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/or/or69-1.html#FC

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WALTER LIPPMANN
Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
writer - photographer - activist
http://www.walterlippmann.com
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