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=**__The SACP is for Socialism not socialitism__**=

//A response to Mazibuko Kanyiso Jara//


 * By: Kaizer Mohau**

Of late a lot of politically and ideologically bankrupt socialites seem to have taken a conscious decision to destabilize the SACP organizationally and politically. This state of affairs is neither new nor strange to the Communist Party in South Africa and all other Communist parties in the world.

Thus we are not surprised when individuals like Mazibuko Kanyiso Jara, take turns in attacking the SACP and other working class formations for taking revolutionary and principled positions in relation to the advancing of our revolution in South Africa. Since his thumb sucked paper on the SACP position in relation to the Deputy President of the ANC, Cde Jacob Zuma, Mazibuko seems to have done what we would prefer to call “ideological floor crossing”, this is so in the light of the ideological, organizational and political attacks on the working class formations by in the main, what the SACP Central Committee Discussion document, called the “1996 Class project”.

Mazibuko has, consciously or unconsciously joined this ideological brass band of the bourgeoisie in its ideological warfare on the working class, with an intention of seeking to liquidate the SACP and other formations of the working class.

It is my view that Comrades, like Jara need not to be dismissed in a manner that discards their important role in building and leading some structures of the SACP – this acknowledgement need to be located within the context of progressively critiquing what we regard as wrong in what Comrades are saying or doing, so that we are able to build and not destroy them.

Perhaps, before distributing what I regard as the first draft of a paper, in which our learned Mazibuko Jara, asked, if “Is the flag of the SACP Red or JZ?” Jara should have at least researched some very important historical aspects of his subject – typical of a bourgeoisie ideologue that became in the ranks of the Communist Party by accident, Jara failed to research and as such made serious mistakes in his paper.

Firstly, as a journalist, at least by association, Jara should have known that by putting his heading as such, he was opening up for many questions less answers about his views on the subject.

A Communist, conscious of him or herself as a Communist cannot pose a question in that way, because clearly you are exposing yourself for not understanding the Communist Party, which you claim to be its member, supporter and leader. One of these questions that Jara should have at least used in his piece, should have been the question of “Reform and Revolution”, because It would have assisted our 21st century Communist to understand how should a Communist Party relate to the current political conjuncture facing our country and the world in general.

Mazibuko, in a more or less criminal way, Lenin would say, in a Lumpen Proletarian way, tried to justify his lack of revolutionary discipline by claiming that the SACP is succumbing to bourgeoisie democratic tendencies, by giving support to Cde JZ, whom he accuses of being chauvinistic, a traditionalist, women abuser etc.

But in all honesty, does Jara think that the SACP has never had a role to play in shaping a revolutionary ANC and in this context demonstrating its interest in terms of what kind of leadership does the ANC have, in a particular historical epoch? Our Alliance with the ANC, is not a boardroom forged Alliance, or a lecture room forged Alliance but a revolutionary Alliance forged in the struggle for National liberation and Socialism – our understanding has always been that, there is a dialectical relationship between the struggle for national liberation and Socialism, thus the coining of the concept of “Colonialism of a special type” by Communists in the main within our national liberation movement led by the ANC.

So Jara should always not think in the box, in the sense that he think his readers have the same understanding of issues like him, this is selfish and self-betrayal.

During his term of office as the SACP Spokesperson, Jara was the one who argued both officially and otherwise, that it was wrong for the then Minister of Safety and Security, the late Cde Steve Tshwete, to publicly accuse Comrades of wanting to topple the President – what an opportunistic inconsistency, now it is Comrade JZ who is accused by Bulelani Ngcuka, publicly in the same way that Steve Tshwete accused the others, but for Jara the Party should not say anything in this regard. Which brings another dimension on this matter, that of tribalism in the extreme.

Like his co-travellers in the train of rightwing opportunism, the ANCYL in the Eastern Cape in particular, Jara sees the support we give to JZ as a matter of tribalism or should I say, modern Defeqane – mfeqane wars?

No Jara, like we said on the Tokyo, Cyril and Mathew saga, it is wrong for Comrades to accuse and try others in the courts of public opinion, and we shall never as the SACP remain silent when state institutions are used to settle political and factional scores.

Obviously, our learned petit bourgeoisie opportunist Mazibuko Kanyiso Jara – is not alone in this – he has been supported by some in our movement and the Party. Amongst the attacks on the SACP and the working class movement on this matter, is the argument that we should not pretend as if JZ is the champion of the course of the left –

What a Petit bourgeoisie and Trotskyite nonsense – what is the left and what constitute the left in our country, especially in this current juncture?

Our critiques do not unpack this concept in relation to practical and contemporary politics. But just go astray and paint accusations without substantially locating them within the tactical and strategic challenges facing the movement, the SACP and the working class in general.

Perhaps, by so doing it will expose their opportunism and self-righteous mentality. Let’s take the above issue further. Mazibuko and his co-travelers, argues further that even if Cde JZ becomes President of the ANC, he will not advance any left leaned policies especially on the economic front – but surely, who in the SACP has said we want JZ as a person to become the ANC President, let alone that he is Karl Marx or Lenin? We have never said that – Only the SACP can dramatically in a revolutionary way transform our society, neither JZ nor anybody else, as long as they lead on the basis of and agenda of nationalism they will not be able to let alone even if they want to, transform our country into a Socialist society. Jara, like his friends in the media, want to liken the principled support for Cde JZ to mean support for him to be the ANC President.

I think Mazibuko, should know better and stop tailing the media, which by a large is a bourgeoisie media and has no interest to see an ANC which is bias to the working class and the poor.

Surprisingly, not that this is the issue, but Mazibuko and his co. do not say anything, seeing that they are interested in JZ not becoming the President of the ANC, saying anything about those calling for the current President to go for the third term, as if there is no one in the movement and our society who is capable enough to lead the ANC.

Mazibuko, should know that under the current conditions, like in many other working class revolutions in the world, Communists should be able to support reforms which are able to take the struggle for Socialism forward, this does not, has never and will never mean that Communists are reformists – it is one thing to support reforms and completely another to be a reformist. Thus Lenin once talked about the “Bending of the stick” phenomenon.

Finally, it should be made clear to Jara and his colleagues that we shall never succumb to petit opportunism whatever disguise it uses to undermine the SACP and its leadership - And worse of all to use the media and faceless sources seem to be popular with these individuals – actually the media seem to have become an object that is being used to liquidate the Party and the working class formations.