SACP leader Joe Slovo was correct in wondering whether “socialism has failed”.
Delegates at the South African Communist Party 15th National Congress at the Birchwood in Boksburg, 14 July 2022. Picture: Neil McCartney / The Citizen
It is now 32 years since the unbanning of the much-feared SA Communist Party – and time has proved that the best way to deal with communism of our local variety was to just let it be. Despite what many think, socialism never even got going in this country. That was because the SACP, as part of the tripartite alliance with the ANC and Cosatu, was just as seduced by the wealth of capitalism as the leaders of the main party.
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