UCT question

written by Maleke Montshiwagae

if Karl Marx's basic axiom of base superstructure in classical Marxism is anything to go by, it's equilibrium position and feedback from superstructure into base and vise versa is exemplified in the UCT outcry... Ngugi wa Thiongo speaks of the canons of English education and literature immortalized in the production of the African middle class whose intent by the British colonial power was to setup future ''partnerships''.. .

these partnerships are today echoed in the corridors of black educated liberals who are contaminated by tendencies of European enlightenment of capitalist modernity whose basis and centrality of formation was the inhuman oppression, dismemberment and enslavement of the African... these type of Africans forms part of the canon outputs shooting at the black condition just like the type of education they received and their white counterparts, only to be seen in rational circles as educated and representative of how a rational human being should behave. . .

No one ever questions the rationality of Rhodes, debates are proposed in the white liberal corner of looking at the benefits and positive contributions Rhodes made in Africa!. . the establishment of the university of cape town forms part of the colleges of the university of London whose intent was to form the new evil colonial methods of black memory erasure, destruction of black languages and culture and insertion of the European image into the African.... it can therefore not be correct to argue that there were positive intents for such an establishment...... the presence of Rhodes and the establishement of UCT represents the symbolic beheading of the Xhosa king Hintsa by Britain in that the beheading was a symbolic erasure of black memory of place, just as the Rhodes statue is, however the actual instituational existance of UCT represents the mental violence and complete clean-up of the African vocabulary in partnership with the African middle class as planned by the British evil system!.....

but the Karl Marx axiom needs a critical look into simply because its fundamental basis derives from Marx's historical materialism generalizations, therefore the plight of black people in UCT is not strictly a base superstructure equilibrium position but a fundamental contention of bringing ''blackness recognition'' into an anti-black institution of whiteness, the struggle is not a class contradiction but an appraisal of black humanness.... the restoration of a black memory of place!