[PEN-L:33222] "Black capital driving democratic change" in S. Africa

["Grant Lee" <grantlee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

African National Congress national executive member Joel Netshitenzhe:

"If you define them in class terms, those drivers of change from within the
black community would have been the working class, the middle strata, the
professionals and the emergent or aspirant black capitalist class...

"So yes there is a class analysis in the approach of the ANC.

"But what we need to add is that a class analysis does necessarily mean that
the ANC stands for a working class struggle for the attainment of socialism.
The ANC is a national liberation movement, it's not fighting for socialism."

[In other words, a classic case of how national capital can subvert class
conflict to further it's own aims against those of global capital.]

http://www.dispatch.co.za/2002/12/19/southafrica/DBLACK.HTM