Comrade-Z
29th January 2006, 22:45
The following are some e-mails between myself and a person by the name of "Justus" who seems to be a socialist in Uganda (I say seem because one can never be too sure about these types of things. But from his knowledge and activities, it seems a reasonable conclusion. In any case, I'm not going to give him any material (financial) assistance because I just don't have it. But it sounds like he's not overly concerned about that. It doesn't sound like one of those nigerian oil scams). I have asked this person if I could share these e-mails, and he said that was just fine.
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(From Justus)
Dear Comrade Chris.
The Presidential,parliamentary and local council political campaigns
are going on now here in Uganda.
Iam trying to participate in as much as possible.Comrade, I would
request your support in designing leaflets,brochures,flyers and
drafting appropriate articles for the local press and to FM radios here.
Also any material and or financial support for this would be welcome.
There is narrow democracy in this country but this is an opportunity
for exposing the lies of the capitalists and at times we gain more
support and socialists.In such times also there is at least a
reasonable level of freedom of speech and expression to enable this.
My postal Box number is: 217,Kabale Uganda E.Africa
Fraternally,
Justus.
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(From Justus)
Dear Comrade Mathew.
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(From me--by the way, you'll notice that I used some of redstar2000's writings in this e-mail. Hope he doesn't mind :o :) ).
Hello, comrade Justus. I'm sorry to say that there's not much I can do to help you with your efforts in Uganda. You said that you want me to design leaflets, brochures, flyers, etc., but I haven't the faintest idea of what the material conditions are in Uganda or what kind of propaganda is needed for your situation. I am curious to learn, however. For instance, how does your political system work? What is general level of technological development in: a.) the cities, and b.) the countryside? What is the strength of your socialist movement there? What are some primary political concerns (major controversial issues) for ordinary people there? What are the main sources of opposition there? Multi-national corporations? Religious fanatics? U.S. Imperialism?
As for working through the parliament...if you think there are concrete victories to be won on that front, then I wish you the best of luck. But, in general, I think a strategy of direct action and resistance makes more sense, whether it is street protesting, workplace occupations, general strikes, etc. Even if you lack the capability to launch these initiatives at the present time, I think it is at least a better idea to vocally advocate these approaches, rather than going through a parliamentary process. In my experience, parliamentarism doesn't accomplish anything significant except for demoralizing people who got their hopes up that it would really change things.
A flyer that I would suggest would run along the lines of:
TO ALL FIGHTING FOR LIBERTY AND EQUALITY IN UGANDA:
While we struggle with the ruthless despotism of capitalism and its brutal lackeys, we must never become deceived as to the true nature of our class enemies.
For instance, at times they may prattle about "democracy" and "human rights," but we know that the moment their rights to exploit and dominate us become threatened, they do not hesitate to take whatever ruthless measures they must in order to protect their hegemony.
We don't have any "democratic rights"...pretending that we do is a bourgeois illusion.
From time to time, we may hire lawyers who will go into court and argue for "our democratic rights". But it's wacko to regard that as anything more than theater...or that the "law" is anything more than the caprice of the ruling class.
The only "democratic rights" that the working class has under the dictatorship of capital are the rights we choose to exercise regardless of the law.
The foremost of which is the right of resistance.
everything you have and everything you may possibly gain comes from fighting like hell against the ruling class, period!
There are no "permanent victories" in the class struggle until the capitalist class is overthrown...if then!
Your rights consist of what you are prepared to defend or assert regardless of the consequences.
The "pro-working class reforms" and "democratic reforms" (such as they are) that are on the law books are indeed ghosts of past struggles. They have only such meaning in the present as workers are willing to fight for them in the present.
The message is clear: "humanity will only be free when the last capitalist is hung with the guts of the last bureaucrat." We must never lose sight of our goal: a society based on liberty, equality, and cooperation. And in the meantime, if we are serious about moving forward, we must always FIGHT LIKE HELL!
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(From Justus)
Hullo Comrade Mathew,
Many thanks for your quick reply.Thannk you for the suggested flyer and Iam promptly working on it for even a letter to the press.Iam happy with the guiding questions you put to me.
The political system herew has been some kind of disguised single party system for the last 20 years of this Museveni regime until end of last year when he was squeezed to the wall by donors to turn to multiparty system.
He changed the constitution through MPs by bribing the majority of parliamentarians with an equivalent of #3000-#5000 each.So he(Museveni) is now a presidential candidate at the same time running the office of the president.
There is no technological advancements here both in the town and rural except in the only city of Kampala where some small scale industries by Indians deal in processing some food stuffs and household plastic utencils,iron bars,iron sheets.Others do assembling of bicycles and computer parts.
We as a movement are not strong as to say.We are a dozen of socialists scattered in the country as far as being known to each other with the biggest number of about seven in this town of Kabale where I started the movement 8 yeras ago when I came into contact with the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
The main political concern of most people here is:the government's failure to end the17 old civil war that covers the northern 1/4 of the country leaving about half a million people dead and 3 millions living in camps as refugees in there own countries.
There is a lot of poverty(though Uganda is a fertile land with plenty of foods,fruits,tamed and wild aniamals plus fresh waters and fish),nepotism and corruption is at high level.For example despite of my being qualified as amedical radiographer and despite of shortage of radiographers,I have found it impossible to be re-instated in the Government Health Service because of my political and religious beliefs in addition to my not belonging to the ruling tribe/clan.
The health service,transport system and education have crambled down.
There are many other social and political problems here like lack of torelance of diverging views by the government and its fanatics etc.
There is a high level of un employment and as I said in my correspondence with you a very limited democracy and only we exploit the elections time.
I hope you will use some or all of the information I have given you to enable you compose a letter or leaflet on the prevailing situation here.
Justus.
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(From me--note: the pamphlet in this e-mail is my own work. Not that it really matters.)
Sorry for the delay. I've been considering your reply for some days now. It is quite interesting to hear firsthand information about your country. Do you mind if I share this message with some of my friends who would find this information interesting?
The more I've considered your situation in your country, the more I come to the conclusion that the most useful things a socialist like yourself in a country with a very primitive socialist movement and rather primitive capitalist development could do would be to vigorously discredit and dismantle all of the pre-capitalist garbage that probably still has a strangle-hold over the consciousness of your country's citizenry. What I'm talking about is vigorous, confrontational, and intransigent opposition to racism, tribal rivalries (if those still exist in your country), nationalism, male-domination, and even religion. Especially religion. A rational working class which is not weighed down by all that pre-capitalist muck will be much more receptive to socialist ideas and much more able to think on its own and trust its own judgment...as opposed to the judgment of whatever corrupt political/economic apparatus or government rules in your country. I must warn you, (although you probably already realize this), most people will regard you as a "radical menace," "crazy," and even a dangerous "enemy of the people." It will be tough going. Unfortunately, it sounds like socialism is still a long way off in your country, to be honest, although history is often quite unpredictable. And in any case, you can play an essential part in shaping your country at its current stage of development. In short, do as much as you feel you can, but, of course, live to fight another day.
Other things that would help with this (and be quite worthwhile in their own right) would be fighting for things like opportunities for education, public works projects (plumbing, electicity, housing) etc. But don't expect the government to go to any lengths to help you along in those efforts, regardless of who is in office. Even a politician who calls him/herself "progressive" (or even "socialist") needs continual confrontation and prodding before they will do anything to help ordinary people. Once in office, the self-evident appeal of becoming corrupt and enriching one's self is just too much to pass up for anyone, no matter how "benevolent" or "caring" that politician claims to be. Politicians, upon acquiring enough power, become corrupt, without fail, unfortunately. Like Marx said, being determines consciousness. If you fulfill the role of a ruler, pretty soon you begin to think like a ruler. It's happened in history without fail, and it happens all the time in our own country (the United States). I imagine your country will be no different. Don't expect things to be any different in the future with "different" politicians.
That said, your best bet will be to directly confront your targets of choice (employers, the government) and directly demand the improvements that you want. Going through the "established political channels" is demoralizing and ultimately ineffective. If the politicians are going to be persuaded by anything, it is going to be the vigorous resistance of the citizenry rather than pleading requests for the politicians to "be nicer" and "more benevolent." The politicians won't care one bit about helping you (although they would claim otherwise) until you and many other people together confront those politicians with a direct threat to their rule. Then they will be willing to appease your movement's growing militance and hostility with all kinds of nice concessions--education, public works projects, etc. But, unfortunately, the pressure needs to be continually placed on the politicians until the improvements you have won have become customary to your society to the extent that any attempt by the government or employers to remove those improvements provokes outrage and violent resistance from the citizenry.
It sounds like the ethnic/tribal conflict is the worst problem where you are living. Like I said, vigorously attacking the intellectual legitimacy of notions such as racism, tribalism, etc. would be a very worthwhile strategy. It would do much to cut down on the needless tribal conflict over time. A pamphlet that you could circulate on the issue might read:
TO ALL THE LABORING PEOPLE OF UGANDA:
It is a daily fact that civil war needlessly deprives our country of crucial resources and murders our fellow citizens. Why does this violence persist? What purpose does it serve? Why do we fight against each other when our common efforts are needed at this very time to face up to our corrupt government and its disgusting thieving and nepotism, both of which daily steal so much from us? What significance is there to tribal, racial, and/or religious affiliations, in reality? Is it not the case that we are all laboring individuals who strive to earn a living for ourselves and our families? Is it not the case that we all suffer similarly from the horrible malady of civil war that grips our country? Could we not all benefit from joining together to put an end to this mess and fighting for the improvements that we know are within reach and essential?
Why is it that we do not have adequate education in our country? Why is it that we do not have adequate housing, plumbing, electricity, food, transportation, etc.? Uganda is a fertile land rich in natural resources. There is no excuse for the poverty that the vast majority of this country endures presently. Needless civil conflict, corruption, and exploitation are to blame. These ills can be corrected if we join together across religious, tribal, and racial affiliations as the common laborers of Uganda and vigorously fight for the improvements. Thousands of soldiers currently make great efforts to murder each other without logical reason in this brutal civil war we have been facing for so long. What if those tremendous efforts were directed against the real exploiters of our society--our conniving politicians prosperous employers--in the name of granting us a decent standard of living? Just imagine what we could achieve! By placing divisive religious, tribal, and racial considerations behind us, we can work together to successfully confront our country's sources of exploitation and bring about vast improvements for all.
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(From Justus)
Thank you for your very moving letter.
You are free to share the mesage with your friends.
Iam busy this participating in the campaigns,bombarding the press and as well haveing to do some income generating work.
Iam glad to inform you that the article you sent me has just been produced in a print and at the same time electronic media here as per link below.I have the same article in a form of leaflet as well.
Iam going to work on this one you have sent me today to make another article for the newspapers and also part of the mesage to me.
It was surely well thought out. Many thanks.
Also I have included a link to one of the burnt buses.
I will write more on the issues you talk about in my next mesage to you.
Fraternally,
Weijagye Justus.
http://www.ugandaobserver.com/today/oped/letters/index.php
http://www.newvision.co.ug/I/8/21
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(From Justus)
Hullo comrade Mathew,
Thanks indeed for your well thought out letter that gives insight to the way and caution I take in dealing with the political situation here.
I agree with you.Carrying the banner of socialism as a big uphill here. Sometimes people say Iam contraversial.But I take consolation in the words of someone who said:"There are very keen,well educated liberal minded and forward thinking people but some peculiar and uncalled for strictures are found here and there which at times tend to blight the hope of progressive minded people who know what is what.So one has to move at snail's pace so as not to invite the sword of ignorance purposelessly,which to speak frankly is in abundance and quite in excess of torelable limits.Where but to think is to be full of sorrow(or where the watering pots of reason could not put out those raging fires).Yet what is to be done has to be done regardless of the consequences.
The universal confusion brought about state capitalism in the former USSR and China,chuba has made the carrying out of socialist propaganda entangled.
Africa could be a strong bleeding ground for socialists and not necessary having to under go all the stages capitalism has taken in the so called developed countries of Europe ad the USA and Canada but however where people have to go through daily basis of earning a living an quest for survival,it is always not easy for such people to be concerned of any events taking place around them.As you say history is quite unpredictable.
The present political atmosphere gives environment for carrying out socialist activities while one embedding oneself in the rallies of these capitalists and taking grasp of all opportunity to ask questions,leaflet,debate,give out socialist materials including books to some of interested people in the audience.
Are you a member of any socialist party,or organisation?
The best I think we here can start off with is to give the masses here a socialist education that can give them an understanding of the world we liv.Surely very few here would tell that we live in a capitalist society and that there is a socialist alternative.
I have arleady made an article from what you sent me and posted it to some three newspapers here and when it comes I will post its link to you.
I started writting socialist idealogy over eight years ago.Unfortunately some of my articles are edited to give different interpretation of the orignal.As you may see in todays Daily newspaper,where I write under a female pen name,the article has been given a tittle that gives impression that socialism is being given a second trial!
Sorry for the long letter.I hope you will have time and reply.
Justus.
http://www.ugandaobserver.com/today/oped/letters/index.php
http://www.monitor.co.ug/letters/index.php
------------------------------------
And that's where things stand as of now.
--------------------
(From Justus)
Dear Comrade Chris.
The Presidential,parliamentary and local council political campaigns
are going on now here in Uganda.
Iam trying to participate in as much as possible.Comrade, I would
request your support in designing leaflets,brochures,flyers and
drafting appropriate articles for the local press and to FM radios here.
Also any material and or financial support for this would be welcome.
There is narrow democracy in this country but this is an opportunity
for exposing the lies of the capitalists and at times we gain more
support and socialists.In such times also there is at least a
reasonable level of freedom of speech and expression to enable this.
My postal Box number is: 217,Kabale Uganda E.Africa
Fraternally,
Justus.
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(From Justus)
Dear Comrade Mathew.
-----------
(From me--by the way, you'll notice that I used some of redstar2000's writings in this e-mail. Hope he doesn't mind :o :) ).
Hello, comrade Justus. I'm sorry to say that there's not much I can do to help you with your efforts in Uganda. You said that you want me to design leaflets, brochures, flyers, etc., but I haven't the faintest idea of what the material conditions are in Uganda or what kind of propaganda is needed for your situation. I am curious to learn, however. For instance, how does your political system work? What is general level of technological development in: a.) the cities, and b.) the countryside? What is the strength of your socialist movement there? What are some primary political concerns (major controversial issues) for ordinary people there? What are the main sources of opposition there? Multi-national corporations? Religious fanatics? U.S. Imperialism?
As for working through the parliament...if you think there are concrete victories to be won on that front, then I wish you the best of luck. But, in general, I think a strategy of direct action and resistance makes more sense, whether it is street protesting, workplace occupations, general strikes, etc. Even if you lack the capability to launch these initiatives at the present time, I think it is at least a better idea to vocally advocate these approaches, rather than going through a parliamentary process. In my experience, parliamentarism doesn't accomplish anything significant except for demoralizing people who got their hopes up that it would really change things.
A flyer that I would suggest would run along the lines of:
TO ALL FIGHTING FOR LIBERTY AND EQUALITY IN UGANDA:
While we struggle with the ruthless despotism of capitalism and its brutal lackeys, we must never become deceived as to the true nature of our class enemies.
For instance, at times they may prattle about "democracy" and "human rights," but we know that the moment their rights to exploit and dominate us become threatened, they do not hesitate to take whatever ruthless measures they must in order to protect their hegemony.
We don't have any "democratic rights"...pretending that we do is a bourgeois illusion.
From time to time, we may hire lawyers who will go into court and argue for "our democratic rights". But it's wacko to regard that as anything more than theater...or that the "law" is anything more than the caprice of the ruling class.
The only "democratic rights" that the working class has under the dictatorship of capital are the rights we choose to exercise regardless of the law.
The foremost of which is the right of resistance.
everything you have and everything you may possibly gain comes from fighting like hell against the ruling class, period!
There are no "permanent victories" in the class struggle until the capitalist class is overthrown...if then!
Your rights consist of what you are prepared to defend or assert regardless of the consequences.
The "pro-working class reforms" and "democratic reforms" (such as they are) that are on the law books are indeed ghosts of past struggles. They have only such meaning in the present as workers are willing to fight for them in the present.
The message is clear: "humanity will only be free when the last capitalist is hung with the guts of the last bureaucrat." We must never lose sight of our goal: a society based on liberty, equality, and cooperation. And in the meantime, if we are serious about moving forward, we must always FIGHT LIKE HELL!
---------------
(From Justus)
Hullo Comrade Mathew,
Many thanks for your quick reply.Thannk you for the suggested flyer and Iam promptly working on it for even a letter to the press.Iam happy with the guiding questions you put to me.
The political system herew has been some kind of disguised single party system for the last 20 years of this Museveni regime until end of last year when he was squeezed to the wall by donors to turn to multiparty system.
He changed the constitution through MPs by bribing the majority of parliamentarians with an equivalent of #3000-#5000 each.So he(Museveni) is now a presidential candidate at the same time running the office of the president.
There is no technological advancements here both in the town and rural except in the only city of Kampala where some small scale industries by Indians deal in processing some food stuffs and household plastic utencils,iron bars,iron sheets.Others do assembling of bicycles and computer parts.
We as a movement are not strong as to say.We are a dozen of socialists scattered in the country as far as being known to each other with the biggest number of about seven in this town of Kabale where I started the movement 8 yeras ago when I came into contact with the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
The main political concern of most people here is:the government's failure to end the17 old civil war that covers the northern 1/4 of the country leaving about half a million people dead and 3 millions living in camps as refugees in there own countries.
There is a lot of poverty(though Uganda is a fertile land with plenty of foods,fruits,tamed and wild aniamals plus fresh waters and fish),nepotism and corruption is at high level.For example despite of my being qualified as amedical radiographer and despite of shortage of radiographers,I have found it impossible to be re-instated in the Government Health Service because of my political and religious beliefs in addition to my not belonging to the ruling tribe/clan.
The health service,transport system and education have crambled down.
There are many other social and political problems here like lack of torelance of diverging views by the government and its fanatics etc.
There is a high level of un employment and as I said in my correspondence with you a very limited democracy and only we exploit the elections time.
I hope you will use some or all of the information I have given you to enable you compose a letter or leaflet on the prevailing situation here.
Justus.
------------
(From me--note: the pamphlet in this e-mail is my own work. Not that it really matters.)
Sorry for the delay. I've been considering your reply for some days now. It is quite interesting to hear firsthand information about your country. Do you mind if I share this message with some of my friends who would find this information interesting?
The more I've considered your situation in your country, the more I come to the conclusion that the most useful things a socialist like yourself in a country with a very primitive socialist movement and rather primitive capitalist development could do would be to vigorously discredit and dismantle all of the pre-capitalist garbage that probably still has a strangle-hold over the consciousness of your country's citizenry. What I'm talking about is vigorous, confrontational, and intransigent opposition to racism, tribal rivalries (if those still exist in your country), nationalism, male-domination, and even religion. Especially religion. A rational working class which is not weighed down by all that pre-capitalist muck will be much more receptive to socialist ideas and much more able to think on its own and trust its own judgment...as opposed to the judgment of whatever corrupt political/economic apparatus or government rules in your country. I must warn you, (although you probably already realize this), most people will regard you as a "radical menace," "crazy," and even a dangerous "enemy of the people." It will be tough going. Unfortunately, it sounds like socialism is still a long way off in your country, to be honest, although history is often quite unpredictable. And in any case, you can play an essential part in shaping your country at its current stage of development. In short, do as much as you feel you can, but, of course, live to fight another day.
Other things that would help with this (and be quite worthwhile in their own right) would be fighting for things like opportunities for education, public works projects (plumbing, electicity, housing) etc. But don't expect the government to go to any lengths to help you along in those efforts, regardless of who is in office. Even a politician who calls him/herself "progressive" (or even "socialist") needs continual confrontation and prodding before they will do anything to help ordinary people. Once in office, the self-evident appeal of becoming corrupt and enriching one's self is just too much to pass up for anyone, no matter how "benevolent" or "caring" that politician claims to be. Politicians, upon acquiring enough power, become corrupt, without fail, unfortunately. Like Marx said, being determines consciousness. If you fulfill the role of a ruler, pretty soon you begin to think like a ruler. It's happened in history without fail, and it happens all the time in our own country (the United States). I imagine your country will be no different. Don't expect things to be any different in the future with "different" politicians.
That said, your best bet will be to directly confront your targets of choice (employers, the government) and directly demand the improvements that you want. Going through the "established political channels" is demoralizing and ultimately ineffective. If the politicians are going to be persuaded by anything, it is going to be the vigorous resistance of the citizenry rather than pleading requests for the politicians to "be nicer" and "more benevolent." The politicians won't care one bit about helping you (although they would claim otherwise) until you and many other people together confront those politicians with a direct threat to their rule. Then they will be willing to appease your movement's growing militance and hostility with all kinds of nice concessions--education, public works projects, etc. But, unfortunately, the pressure needs to be continually placed on the politicians until the improvements you have won have become customary to your society to the extent that any attempt by the government or employers to remove those improvements provokes outrage and violent resistance from the citizenry.
It sounds like the ethnic/tribal conflict is the worst problem where you are living. Like I said, vigorously attacking the intellectual legitimacy of notions such as racism, tribalism, etc. would be a very worthwhile strategy. It would do much to cut down on the needless tribal conflict over time. A pamphlet that you could circulate on the issue might read:
TO ALL THE LABORING PEOPLE OF UGANDA:
It is a daily fact that civil war needlessly deprives our country of crucial resources and murders our fellow citizens. Why does this violence persist? What purpose does it serve? Why do we fight against each other when our common efforts are needed at this very time to face up to our corrupt government and its disgusting thieving and nepotism, both of which daily steal so much from us? What significance is there to tribal, racial, and/or religious affiliations, in reality? Is it not the case that we are all laboring individuals who strive to earn a living for ourselves and our families? Is it not the case that we all suffer similarly from the horrible malady of civil war that grips our country? Could we not all benefit from joining together to put an end to this mess and fighting for the improvements that we know are within reach and essential?
Why is it that we do not have adequate education in our country? Why is it that we do not have adequate housing, plumbing, electricity, food, transportation, etc.? Uganda is a fertile land rich in natural resources. There is no excuse for the poverty that the vast majority of this country endures presently. Needless civil conflict, corruption, and exploitation are to blame. These ills can be corrected if we join together across religious, tribal, and racial affiliations as the common laborers of Uganda and vigorously fight for the improvements. Thousands of soldiers currently make great efforts to murder each other without logical reason in this brutal civil war we have been facing for so long. What if those tremendous efforts were directed against the real exploiters of our society--our conniving politicians prosperous employers--in the name of granting us a decent standard of living? Just imagine what we could achieve! By placing divisive religious, tribal, and racial considerations behind us, we can work together to successfully confront our country's sources of exploitation and bring about vast improvements for all.
-----------------
(From Justus)
Thank you for your very moving letter.
You are free to share the mesage with your friends.
Iam busy this participating in the campaigns,bombarding the press and as well haveing to do some income generating work.
Iam glad to inform you that the article you sent me has just been produced in a print and at the same time electronic media here as per link below.I have the same article in a form of leaflet as well.
Iam going to work on this one you have sent me today to make another article for the newspapers and also part of the mesage to me.
It was surely well thought out. Many thanks.
Also I have included a link to one of the burnt buses.
I will write more on the issues you talk about in my next mesage to you.
Fraternally,
Weijagye Justus.
http://www.ugandaobserver.com/today/oped/letters/index.php
http://www.newvision.co.ug/I/8/21
-------------
(From Justus)
Hullo comrade Mathew,
Thanks indeed for your well thought out letter that gives insight to the way and caution I take in dealing with the political situation here.
I agree with you.Carrying the banner of socialism as a big uphill here. Sometimes people say Iam contraversial.But I take consolation in the words of someone who said:"There are very keen,well educated liberal minded and forward thinking people but some peculiar and uncalled for strictures are found here and there which at times tend to blight the hope of progressive minded people who know what is what.So one has to move at snail's pace so as not to invite the sword of ignorance purposelessly,which to speak frankly is in abundance and quite in excess of torelable limits.Where but to think is to be full of sorrow(or where the watering pots of reason could not put out those raging fires).Yet what is to be done has to be done regardless of the consequences.
The universal confusion brought about state capitalism in the former USSR and China,chuba has made the carrying out of socialist propaganda entangled.
Africa could be a strong bleeding ground for socialists and not necessary having to under go all the stages capitalism has taken in the so called developed countries of Europe ad the USA and Canada but however where people have to go through daily basis of earning a living an quest for survival,it is always not easy for such people to be concerned of any events taking place around them.As you say history is quite unpredictable.
The present political atmosphere gives environment for carrying out socialist activities while one embedding oneself in the rallies of these capitalists and taking grasp of all opportunity to ask questions,leaflet,debate,give out socialist materials including books to some of interested people in the audience.
Are you a member of any socialist party,or organisation?
The best I think we here can start off with is to give the masses here a socialist education that can give them an understanding of the world we liv.Surely very few here would tell that we live in a capitalist society and that there is a socialist alternative.
I have arleady made an article from what you sent me and posted it to some three newspapers here and when it comes I will post its link to you.
I started writting socialist idealogy over eight years ago.Unfortunately some of my articles are edited to give different interpretation of the orignal.As you may see in todays Daily newspaper,where I write under a female pen name,the article has been given a tittle that gives impression that socialism is being given a second trial!
Sorry for the long letter.I hope you will have time and reply.
Justus.
http://www.ugandaobserver.com/today/oped/letters/index.php
http://www.monitor.co.ug/letters/index.php
------------------------------------
And that's where things stand as of now.