LITERESI BILENG AVANSE - boukie banane
LITERESI BILENG AVANSE - boukie banane
LITERESI BILENG AVANSE - boukie banane
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CLASS STRUGGLE AND CLASS STRATEGY<br />
The Mauritius Labour Party (MLP) is not and has never been a working class socialist party but rather<br />
a middle class fabian socialist party or more precisely a social-democratic party. Under its leadership,<br />
the middle class has made an alliance with the working class to conquer state power and use it to<br />
promote middle class interests but it cannot be denied that the working class has benefited to some<br />
extent.<br />
Neoliberalism, a right wing ideology, is represented today by the MMM which ignores class reality<br />
and which thinks that ideology is dead. It's licensed historian, Jocelyn Chan Lowe, claims that his<br />
guru, Paul Berenger, has 'abandoned' ideology when we know that what has happened is an<br />
abandonment of socialism in favour of neoliberalism.<br />
Neoliberalism has accelerated and intensified the convulsions and contradictions of western<br />
capitalism and now the shallow and pompous leader of the MMM has suddenly discovered America<br />
on the map. His heart aches and angst chokes him. His once loathed and now much worshipped<br />
western world is mired in debt and is in the throes of impending collapse. Note that he does not<br />
blame his opponents and this means that he is sending signals that a back seat in Government<br />
Limousine would be most welcome, for his lords and masters, the 1% filthy rich whites who control<br />
75% of the country's wealth need Le Petit Paul to feather their nests. The collapse of western<br />
capitalism means their doom as well and since their dream of putting in power their Berengers and<br />
Guinbeaus has turned into a nightmare, they urgently need to have their doormats inside the seat of<br />
power.<br />
Middle class capitalists will face the same fate if they do not re-invent themselves and develop a<br />
new economic strategy which does not make of them obedient and subservient lackeys of foreign<br />
powers. Their political party, the MLP, has already shown that it has the clout to chart a new course<br />
with its enpowerment programme, the drive to sustainable development through Maurice Ile<br />
Durable and the establishment of strong ties with Asian capitalism. If some respite can be thus<br />
achieved, it will be short lived because the Asian capitalist countries are insatiable energy guzzling<br />
and resource gobbling systems. Consequently global warming and climate change will get worse.<br />
What can the working class do? When the effects of global warming start to hit us hard, will the<br />
working class be ready to take the lead? Will AfroCreole working class have freed itself from the<br />
ideological fetters of present-day neoliberalism which blends with subtle racism? Will working class<br />
Hindus and Muslims have freed themselves from middle class interests? If the working class and its<br />
party can take the lead, well and good. It can then enter into an alliance with the middle class as a<br />
junior partner. If not, what should it do? Stay off limits as onlookers? Or should it negotiate an<br />
alliance as a junior partner and ensure some fundamental economic, political, social and cultural<br />
gains for its members?<br />
Working class activists, leaders and thinkers should forget their petty quarrels and look into the<br />
possibility of building an efficient working class party so as to be able to give the right orientation to<br />
the struggle for survival for that is the issue of the day.<br />
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