Re: Precapitalist South Africa?

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yusuf Dadoo national chairman of the South African Communist Party,  on
"colonialism of a special type"

in Introduction to South African Communists Speak: Documents from the
History of the South African Communist Party, 1915-1980, London, 1981

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The principle which has guided all our efforts has been the need to build
up the broadest united front of patriotic and anti-racist forces in the
struggle against white domination. It was in pursuit of this aim that our
Party explored the relationship between the national and class struggles in
South Africa, and formulated in its 1962 programme the concept of
"colonialism of a special type" which provided the theoretical basis for
yoking together the forces of national liberation and working class
revolution. At this, the stage of the national democratic revolution, the
main component of which in the South African context is the national
liberation of the African people, the main thrust of the revolutionary
forces is to forge the broadest possible unity of the masses and of all
strata of the people for the overthrow of the hated racist regime. In
pursuance of this objective the Freedom Charter adopted at the Congress of
the People in 1955 has become the immediate programme of the national
liberation alliance and the short-term programme of our Party.
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