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HiPointDem

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7. i recently read that miners in south africa still make the same wage they did in 1947 once you

Reply to applegrove (Reply #5)

Mon Dec 10, 2012, 03:55 AM

Dec 2012

adjust for inflation.

whites & global capital still run south africa, and all of africa. they just run it through compradors.

putting black faces in positions of power changes very little. white people will gladly fuck other white people over for profit; why would black people (or women, mexicans, arabs, protestants, catholics, etc.) be any different?

this is why identity politics is ultimately a dead end. some fraction of the former despised caste gets into positions of power -- fine & good. but if little changes for the majority of people, what difference does it really make?

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Nelson Mandela 'proven' to be a member of the Communist Party after decades of denial [View all] alp227 Dec 2012 OP

Even if he was, so what? Ken Burch Dec 2012 #1

Well, we turned our backs on evey nascent oppositions to colonial rule in te world... WCGreen Dec 2012 #2

This is news? Samjm Dec 2012 #3

Well, good for him! burrowowl Dec 2012 #4

Right. People in SA were better off when 75 % of the population applegrove Dec 2012 #5

i recently read that miners in south africa still make the same wage they did in 1947 once you HiPointDem Dec 2012 #7

greed knows no color former-republican Dec 2012 #10

What your observations there show is that the liberation project isn't OVER in S. Africa Ken Burch Dec 2012 #12

ethnic/racial discrimination is part of the toolbox of economic "discrimination". it doesn't exist HiPointDem Dec 2012 #13

That's true. Ken Burch Dec 2012 #16

agreed. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #17

whites still run south africa, and all of africa. decolonialization didn't change that. they just HiPointDem Dec 2012 #6

SO??? newfie11 Dec 2012 #8

"help of the Communist superpowers for the ANC's campaign of armed resistance to white rule. " marmar Dec 2012 #9

South Africa was a victim of the shock doctrine gollygee Dec 2012 #11

as are we all. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #14

Very true! nt gollygee Dec 2012 #15