[lbo-talk] Re: South Africa: National Democratic Revolution

John Mage jmage at panix.com
Thu Jul 15 15:50:42 PDT 2004


Todd Archer wrote:


> This report leaves me feeling a bit disquieted. It does mention the
> difficulty of trying to operate within the matrix of global capitalism, but
> it seems so "quiet" about liberal bourgeois economics after going on about
> the liberal SA constitution. And that constitution hardly seems terribly
> radical, a fart's worth in a windstorm. No talk about bourgeois rights vs.
> proletarian rights. Just looks uncomfortably as though they're fronting for
> a somewhat left-liberal, maybe soc-dem (but hardly radical) Mbeki.
>
> Sure wish I could hear Patrick respond to this.
>
> Todd

Patrick's recent MR piece on the subject: <http://www.monthlyreview.org/0304bond.htm>

john mage



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