Letter+from+Raymond+Suttner+to+Communist+University

=Tendentious reading of what I have written=

Dear Comrade While it is in order to disagree with me is it necessary to distort what I have said? As Maurice Smithers wrote to you, I have made no statement that pre-empts the Zuma judgment. I challenge you to act honestly and admit that that is inaccurate and retract or else prove its truth It is claimed I published my own judgment. What I did is respond to a public article by General Secretary Nzimande disagreeing with the approach of the SACP. That is my right. We are no longer underground and what Cde Blade wrote about was not secret. There are, you admit, different views on the matter in the Party. I used the limited space allowed to me in order to air mine about the shameful conduct which I believe has characterised SACP leadership handling of this issue. Apparently a SACP statement expressed regret at my not raising this within the Party. Why should I respond to a public article within the Party? Regret or disappointment is a moral statement. Let us be wary of using such language when it is the SACP that needs to be practising self-examination over its conduct over this period which I argue (and others may disagree) departs from the tradition of the Party and brings it into disrepute. Yes I am still a member of the Party and I challenge any of your readers, including yourself to say whether/why that should be in question. The question that people like yourself have to ask I believe is, given that you have established what looks like an important internet resource, which regrettably through lack of time I have used insufficiently: Must we be hacks who just are silent in the face of any statement of the SACP? Or are we to cultivate a new generation of critical thinkers, who have many Communists amongst them, people who engage with issues and do not merely mouth what is an official line. Finally, I think it is shameful that you should resort to the distortions you have adopted. What is at stake that you behave in such a bizarre and unethical manner. I am not sure whether writing this automatically goes onto your website. If it does not please ensure that it does. Regards **Raymond Suttner**

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