{"id":1088,"date":"2020-02-09T11:35:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T09:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marxistworkersparty.org.za\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2020-03-08T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T08:29:26","slug":"podcast-2-the-ancs-historical-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marxistworkersparty.net\/?p=1088","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST #2: The ANC\u2019s Historical Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Defence of Capitalism<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A fierce factional struggle is being waged around the ruling ANC between the supporters of President Cyril Ramaphosa and so-called \u2018white monopoly capital\u2019, and the supporters of former-President Jacob Zuma, whose siren-call is \u2018radical economic transformation\u2019. Both factions however defend the capitalist system.  In essence, their argument is about the best way to perpetuate the exploitation of the working class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this podcast,\nWeizmann Hamilton, general secretary of the Marxist Workers Party, explains this\nfactional struggle as the inevitable outcome of the class interests the ANC has\nserved historically \u2013 those of the black aspirant capitalist class, and\nsketches-out how this mission developed historically, including the role of\nNelson Mandela and the 1994 negotiated settlement that ended apartheid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamilton brings\nthings firmly up to date and warns the leaders of the trade unions that the\nreformist economic and timid political alternative being put forward will see them\nfollowing in the ANC\u2019s footsteps and objectively playing the role of defenders\nof capitalism. Capitalism\u2019s economic and political crisis demands a policy of\nstrict working class independence from the intra-class conflicts of the\ndifferent wings of the capitalist class. A genuinely independent working class policy\nmust have the nationalisation of the commanding heights of the economy under democratic\nworkers control at its heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n