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Business Day Weekender, Johannesburg, 2006/07/29 12:00:00 AM
=From China with love: cheap exports=


 * Vukani Mde**

THE Unknown Author suggests the SACP is confused as a result of its failure to understand the great socialist revolution of China, which is conquering the world through clever anti-imperialist devices such as cheap textile exports. He opines: “It may therefore very well be that our own 21st century Marxists will see socialist China as an enemy of the working class and the victory of socialism in our country.”

In his report to the 2002 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the then general secretary of the CPC and president of China Jiang Zemin, said: “Over the past 13 years, with clearly defined objectives, we worked with one heart and one mind and scored historic achievements. China came up to the sixth place in the world in terms of economic aggregate. On the whole, the people made a historic leap from having only adequate food and clothing to leading a well-off life.”

With the Asgi-SA targets looming, we’ll draw inspiration wherever we find it.


 * From: http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/TarkArticle.aspx?ID=2159667**


 * P. S.**

THE Unknown Author notes: “Our own 21st century ‘Marxists’ have not had the opportunity to rule over even a single local municipality. It may indeed serve as a very important school were they to govern such a local municipality, to implement whatever programme they may have, to use the democratic revolution to advance their ‘socialist’ perspective. Hopefully, in this regard, they would have the humility to study the experience of the world’s longest ruling Communist Party, the Communist Party of China, as it has striven to build socialism.”

Ouch. At least the SACP now knows. You can’t talk until you’ve governed at least one municipality. You can’t govern until you stand in an election.


 * From: http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/TarkArticle.aspx?ID=2159658**

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