Writen by Maleke Montshiwagae
the tripartite alliance between Cosatu, ANC and SACP is a clear cut practical example in the Mzansi case study of the crisis of black Marxism . . . their dependency upon pure Marxism fails them in dealing with both the local and international black question . . .
one does not even have to go deep into the dialectic development of Marxism in order to reveal the tripartite alliance' structural failure mechanism. ...
one only has to take note of the transformation of one of the hardcore black Marxists C.L.R James who like many other Marxists, advocated for the primacy of class analysis over race. James also believed that the appraisal of black self-determination was a reactionary act because it would compromise the internationalist worker's solidarity between white and black workers. ..
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but following the debates in the Socialist Workers Party in which Trotsky objected that there was nothing reactionary in black self-determination because the negroes lacked the necessary cultural and historical basis to form a separate nation. Trotsky even supported Marcus Garvey's movement.
In fact, in J.Sekai's "the mythology of the white proletariat" he addresses the Labour aristocratic tendencies of the white workers who were more interested in petty-bourgeoisie interests and worked hand in hand with the white capitalist upper class to suppress black workers in order to keep them as the underclass. ... he indicates that in America the white workers were in a dynamic state in which they could acquire land at any given time, therefore they were never really a "true working class" given their dynamic state.... while black people were just plantation slaves workers who did not even form part of the white societal class hierarchy,... therefore they were the dehumanized to start of with.... therefore there was a clear vacuum between blacks and whites in which working class solidarity was an illusion. .. the black condition needed to be addressed as a separate issue by black people!
anyway, James was eventually driven towards the understanding of the black question and drafted a resolution on "The Socialist Workers Party and Negro Work" which recognized the validity of "black chauvinism" in view of the betrayal of black people by white communists, Democrats and Republicans and condemned the expression of racial domination as reactionary.
the SACP and Cosatu fails in my view to provide an ontological analysis of the black question as they continue to confuse a black men for a worker. .. they tend to interpret the basis for a black grammar of suffering in terms of economics similar to how Marx "universalized" human social development with economics as a base factor. therefore there tends to be an interchangeability between a worker and black person, hence jobs for black people are a focal point to them rather than the reconstruction of the dehumanized black being..
Even Lenin in his statements, he recognizes the non-reactionary nature of the colonized' self-determination proclamation as he sees it as part of a necessary force that will not be deterred by white race domination and its contradictions, and would contribute eventually towards a socialist revolution. ...
We are taught that in the cause of the development of capitalism, the upper class capitalists studied the vanguard movement and focused upon the importance of labor aristocracy as an important element to destabilize it by rewarding trade union leaders and supervisors with petty benefits in order for them to protect the capitalist interests, this we can see in the Cosatu and SACP tendencies as they are rewarded by the black capitalist bourgeoisie movement the anc....
therefore, on the one hand we have a trade union federation and communists fighting for a delusional working class unity that does not take into account the historical black societal development and experiences, while on the other hand you have them under control through labor aristocratic technique by the bourgeoisie black nationalists serving white upper class, which leaves the black people on their own!
........ . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . BLACK FIRST...
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