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Title: | Domestic and Foreign Policies of a New South Africa |
Author: | Mbeki, Thabo |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 11 |
Period: | January-April |
Pages: | 6-16 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | political philosophy working class Politics and Government international relations Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056247808703346 |
Abstract: | In dealing with social reconstruction in a new South Africa, the author advances the view that South Africa is unique among the bourgeois countries in that profit maximisation is the overt, unhidden and principle objective of state policy. The state does not seek to conceal its repressive function and as a result, the state relates to the African not as an individual comparable to a white individual, but as a repository of the commodity - labour power. Of the various possible alternatives open to Africans to struggle against these conditions, 'the only historically justifiable and inevitable alternative is that we (Africans) cling very firmly to our position as producers, that we hoist the bourgeoisie with its own petard'. Such a redefinition of the position of the black producer so that the production of wealth will be for the benefit of the producers themselves is implicit in the theoretical basis of the Freedom Charter, the political programme adopted by the African National Congress in 1956. Notes. |