Friday 7 November 2014

WHATS COMMUNIST ABOUT THE SACP

WHATS COMMUNIST ABOUT THE SACP ? Written by 
Modibe J Modiba 

For sometime now I've been asking myself one simple yet very relevant question, what's communist about the South African Communist Party? I mean if one looks up the definition of a communist party it would definitely be the direct opposite of this current SACP.

In MY view the SACP is supposed to be a very leftist movement and a vanguard of the working class today, they're supposed to be advocating for the adoption of communist policies through state policies,so is the SACP really doing this? I remember as I was watching parliament sometime back a member of the SACP who happens to be an MP stood up and proudly quoted the word RADICAL from an Oxford dictionary, like seriously speaking, have you ever seen a "Communist" quoting the word RADICAL from a dictionary? It wasn't until Floyd Shivambu the chief whip of the Economic Freedom Fighters who then asked why the honorable "communist" quoted the word RADICAL from a dictionary instead of quoting the word RADICAL from the Communist Manifesto. What guides the SACP if not the Communist Manifesto?

In MY view the SACP are supposed to be very loud regarding land, regarding our capitalist economy, regarding nationalization, they're supposed to be calling for the nationalization of mines and fighting for a minimum wage for the workers, but are they really doing this? Would Joe Slovo and Chris Hani be proud of today's SACP? I for one think that all the SACP does is provide an IDEALOGICAL COVER for the ANC and act like big mouths in public forgetting what it really means to be a communist, now let's be honest with each other, what's communist about Blade Nzimande or the SACP?

Is the SACP really a communist party or should we now rename it the South African Capitalist Party? If the SACP are really a communist party as they proudly claim to be, they'd be very left to the ANC and disagree with state policies most of the time, but they don't ! The SACP is so dead it hurts I don't even think a primary or high school learner even knows that there's a Communist Party in South Africa in fact, we've all forgotten!
Now my question to you is, do you seriously believe that the SACP are a Communist Party?

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