[Marxism] CCS Seminar: Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu on 'demise of 1652 class project', 13 May, 12:30-2pm

[Patrick Bond <pbond@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Join us at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil  Society for 
a seminar, "Azania Rising: The demise of the 1652 class project", which 
advances alternatives to capitalist class society in Africa

Speaker: Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu, CCS
Date: Wednesday, 13th May
Time: 12:30-2pm
Venue: CCS/SDS seminar room, Memorial Tower Building Room F208

University of KwaZulu-Natal Howard College Campus

Queries: poonenh@xxxxxxxxxx or 031-260-3195

This seminar addresses the problem of a cosmetic elite in Africa. We 
consider whether the Marxist construct of class remains relevant in the 
struggle for total liberation from the fetters of the Colonial 
Capitalist Mode of Production which continues to nurture white 
supremacist ideology and gross socio-economic disparities across the 
continent. Capitalism produces and reproduces itself as an antagonistic 
structure of class relations; it divides the population again and again 
into antagonistic classes. Within the material and social relations are 
produced and reproduced the material conditions of existence. Marxist 
analysis maintains that the prior distribution of the means of 
production distinguishes classes between the âpossessorsâ and the 
âdispossessedâ. The historical incorporation of Africa and its 
non-capitalist systems into an evolving capitalist mode of production 
has resulted in an even more complex set of class relations. The 
predominate mode of production in most of Africa remains the Colonial 
Capitalist Mode of Production. No class analysis of Africa is complete 
without considering this basic fact. In all regions on the continent, 
social class formations survive only as long as they complement Colonial 
relations of production.

Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu is a CCS Community Scholar, in 2008 named as one 
of South Africa's leading 100 youth by the Mail&Guardian.


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