Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 12:29:32 -0600 (CST)
From: ty reynaldo r <z969609-AT-oats.farm.niu.edu>
Subject: M-G: Re: M-I: South African guns to Ruanda!


Your assumptions are:

1)  Nelson Mandela is Marxist.
2)  Nelson Mandela's government is Marxist.
3)  There is only one Marxist path of development.

Before your posting can have any meaning, the above assumptions must 
first be qualified.

Reynaldo
Philippines

On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Robert Malecki wrote:

> Nelson Mandela's government is shipping guns to the government in Ruanda. 
> Right in the middle of a "new" crisis in Central Africa. Thus Mandela is 
> taking sides in the new conflict brewing in Central Africa. Any comments on 
> the Mandela "foreign policy" in regards to this from our "marxists" on the list?
> 
> I would think that the ANC policy goes against the grain of any kind of 
> marxist policy. In fact supporting one ethnic group against another is in 
> fact more along the lines of creating jobs and military contracts for South 
> Africa and South African capitalism. And maybe rubbing a little salt into 
> the wounds of the cancer ridden African president in Switzerland who is 
> ending his life in the uttermost luxury as his former country falls apart at 
> the seams. Rather than any concious policy to find a solution and provide 
> leadership on the African continent.
> 
> Instead of supporting one military click against the other it would appear 
> to me that a program of South African proletarian Internationalism linked to 
> a program of developing both agriculture and industry in central Africa and 
> building and African COMINTERN and connecting it to the struggles against 
> the rollbacks, protectionism,
> unemployment here in Europe and naturally a good dose of ideas that would 
> draw the American black proletariat into the struggle would be a far more 
> powerful weapon then the road that the present ANC leadership in Pretoria 
> are taking.
> 
> Once again we see the complete bankruptcy of in this case third world 
> nationalism which pits ethnic group against ethnic group, one African nation 
> against another while the imperialist FN waits in the sidelines to pick up 
> the pieces after a new round of bloodbaths and mass starvation!
> 
> The ANC and the South African CP must break with this tradition and turn 
> towards a policy and program that can involve the millions upon millions of 
> African toilers in a desperate struggle to develop the continent, 
> independently of imperialism and its colonial lackies on the continent. They 
> must draw in the millions of foreign nationals in Europe and not in the 
> least the American black proletariat in this struggle. Armed with a program 
> of independent struggle of agriculture and industralisation of the African 
> continent and the building of a Socialist federaration of African states.
> 
> This is the only *real* way forward. Otherwise we will continue to see a 
> never ending round of crisis after crisis where millions will die or starve 
> to death as imperialism looks on and in the aftermath go in and once again 
> colonise the African continent as it defacto does today with money from the 
> banks today.
> 
> We should also keep in mind that the imperialist forces are devided and in 
> fact are secretly fighting over who gets which piece of cake while backing 
> up either one or the other "African" government against another. Nelson 
> Mandela's government appears to be taking the same road albeit in the 
> interests of South African capitalism and imperialism.
> 
> Break with the dead end cycle of African nationalism!
> 
> Break with all wings of imperialsm!
> 
> Construct and African COMINTERN!
> 
> Link the struggles to the European and foremost black American Proletariat!
> 
> For a Socialist Federation of African States!
> 
> For a reforged Communist International!
> 
> Bob Malecki
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