April 2011 - Centre for Civil Society - University of KwaZulu-Natal

the youth are massively radicalised, the level of organization is very high
and rising, the authority of the reformist leaders is in a free fall and the
bourgeois political parties have been reduced to a small insignificant
minority with very little influence. There have never been more favourable
circumstances to mobilize the masses against capitalism.
By taking over the commanding heights of the economy the massive sums,
that each year are pocketed by the national and international capitalists,
could be used to raise living standard to unprecedented levels. Life for
most South Africans would change from being a never ending battle to
make ends meet to a path for the development of science and human
culture. Such a revolution would immediately get an echo and become a
focal point of struggle, not only in Africa but among the workers of the
whole world and would change the course of world history.
The apologists of capital will of course continue to talk about the
“unfavourable balance of forces”. However, the workers, once on the
move would become an unstoppable force. We will let Lenin sum up the
discussion:
“Until the 'higher' phase of communism arrives, the socialists demand the
strictest control by society and by the state over the measure of labour
and the measure of consumption; but this control must start with the
expropriation of the capitalists, with the establishment of workers'
control over the capitalists, and must be exercised not by a state of
bureaucrats, but by a state of armed workers.
“The selfish defence of capitalism by the bourgeois ideologists (and their
hangers-on, like the Tseretelis, Chernovs, and Co.) consists in that they
substitute arguing and talk about the distant future for the vital and
burning question of present-day politics, namely, the expropriation of the
capitalists, the conversion of all citizens into workers and other
employees of one huge 'syndicate' – the whole state – and the complete
subordination of the entire work of this syndicate to a genuinely
democratic state, the state of the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers'
Deputies.”
These words are as valid today as they were 92 years ago. The future of
working people can only be guaranteed by socialism, not because we
choose socialism. It is not a question of personal choice but one of
absolute historical necessity. We have full confidence in the South African
workers and youth and the forces of Marxism that are rapidly growing and
maturing in the country.
• Rearm the Communist Party with communist policies!
• Build the Marxist Tendency!
• Nationalize the commanding heights of the economy!
• Forward to socialist revolution!
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