[Take a look at this Marxist Communist editorial from Zambia!! Look at what it “advocates”. It basically is saying that in the 2nd decade of “freedom” they must destroy capitalism and redistribute the wealth to the poor.

Note a key phrase echoed here, which one hears over and over out of the mouths of the ANC and most Leftists. They talk about the need to change the system to “get rid of poverty!” That is such an outright lie, and such complete nonsense. Never once has stealing from the Rich helped the Poor. They should know it by now… Even the ANC must know this is not true… So why do they advocate an idea that has zero intellectual merit? Well, this is why I wrote “Government by Deception”… This is DECEPTION… it is a lie… and they know it… just as Mugabe knew that driving out the White farmers would collapse the economy. Deep down… the real reason must be CONTROL… CONTROL of the economy. They would rather destroy the economy than leave it in White hands. That’s the only logical answer I can see.

Deep down the Marxist liars must know that it will only make the poor poorer. But, the poor also happen to be completely stupid as well… and this is how it is sold to them. They lie to the poor and deceive them into thinking this will “benefit” them. Of course it won’t. And when it doesn’t, they come up with the usual list of BS excuses: “It was not implemented correctly”, blah blah. Such rubbish.

Pardon me for thinking that the Marxist liars should be lined up against a wall and shot. Jan]

South Africa’s 11 Years of Freedom
The Post (Lusaka)
EDITORIAL
April 27, 2005

We salute the people of South Africa as they complete the first year of the second decade of their country’s freedom.

A lot has been achieved over the last 11 years, for which the South African people in general, and the African National Congress leadership in particular, deserve a lot of credit.

But there are still many daunting challenges facing those heroic people.

Top of the agenda, in our view, is the challenge of consolidating the state and a public sector which intervenes in and directs the economy for jobs and sustainable livelihoods; economic growth and development which benefits the workers and the poor; accelerating land and agrarian reform; intensifying the financial sector transformation campaign; and the local state: local economic development, local government transformation and service delivery.

All in all, it is clear that in economic terms, the first decade of freedom has been most beneficial to the established (white) and emerging (black) strata of the capitalist class. Whilst the workers’ share of GDP has declined dramatically, productivity has increased and unemployment levels have escalated.

This continued accumulation of wealth by the already rich threatens to sweep away the many democratic gains and social transfers to the workers and the poor led by the ANC government: these include a new constitutional framework, workers’ rights, equality for women, provision of social services – water, electricity, sanitation, housing, social security grants, and so on and so forth. And we don’t believe the prevailing growth and accumulation path will be able to resolve the systemic, structural crises of under-development that continue to beset South Africa.

Therefore, there’s a need to intensify working class struggles and campaigns on the socio-economic front to ensure that the workers and the poor can benefit economically in the second decade of South Africa’s freedom.

There’s a need for all the poor and working people in South Africa to escalate their own organisation, mobilisation and struggles for jobs, poverty eradication, access to basic and essential services for all, accelerated land reform and challenging the management and ownership monopoly of the shopfloor and the economy by small, elite and un-elected groups of managers and capitalists.

The intensification of an all-round class struggle is the only way to ensure that they, as the workers and the poor of that country, can make and claim the second decade of freedom as their decade even in economic terms.

There’s a need to change the accumulation regime in that country away from one which benefits the capitalist class into one which benefits the workers and poor of South Africa.

There’s a need for actions to mobilise the South African people around accelerated land and agrarian transformation.

There’s a need for the landless to realise that the only guarantee to accelerated land reform is mass pressure on current landowners and in support of state-led land and agrarian reform, instead of the current market-based land reform programme.

Source: AllAfrica.Com
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200504270253.htm…/p>