ALLOW me space in your esteemed newspaper to express my opinions on the vision and actions of the twin-political parties adamant to fight for economic freedom.
The wide political vacuum waiting for the South African Economic Freedom Fighters (EEC) and The Namibian Economic Freedom Fighters (NEFF) is massive and what a race.
What a rocky road, what a challenge and what a massive failure might await the two sister political parties ahead.
Politics and economics are two poles apart, they never walk together, and neither do they have boundaries to anchor. Politics may survive on economics for those in power only and not for all people. The aims of politics are to shout for freedom, which they do not achieve. The aim of politics is to bring friends closer and eat together, while the gap between the poor and the rich rises higher and higher.
Politics shouts and chants freedom, equality, liberty, freedom of the press, voted by the masses, our party is the only party and never satisfies the masses that are said to have voted the elite in power. The elite are the scholars, proponents, deciding factors of what they themselves would want to have, but not that anyone else has a say. A political party which is in power dominates the political landscape and creates enmity to as many publicans as is possible.
Unrest, fear, death, threats and silencing the vocal cords of those who question the actions of politics and more so jealousy, hatred, greed, slander, bigotry, ethnicity, racism, tribalism, nationalism and many other attributes fall within these limits.
Economics is about wealth, it is about who is highly feared in terms of wealth, who controls the economy, competition and more so, profitability? The Namibian and South African economies are mixed. They all run capitalist and socialist economies.
The hurdles these sister politico-economic parties are waiting are high, frustrating, bitter and unrewarding.
Squarely, they will not fight an economic war, but instead, a political war. The difficulties they will face are massive and these are inter alia the physical fight between the governments, the ministries of trade and industry; regional and local governments; labour ministries; labour unions such as COSATU in South Africa and NUNW in Namibia, which are government supporters and wings of economic growth and political shock absorbers for their governments.
The people behind the formation of these economic political parties think that they would work in years now and in future years and more so, as to dictate economic freedom and equity is in itself very illusive and never a power house for political economic freedom fighting.
They have hurdles such as TIPEEG and BEE in Namibia to wrestle with and South Africa has the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP). The elite who are in the higher echelons of government structures and their subsidiaries such as the state-owned enterprises and other structures on the outskirts of the political domain will also be threats to the activities of these sister politico-economic parties.
Karl Marx, a German, was the founder of such movements such as socialist economies and was further joined by the Russian leaders such as Joseph Stalin and Ilyanov Lenin whose ideologies were kneaded after their names such as Marxism, Stalinism and Leninism to ensure they fight for equality in economic terms for all, but they had a dream that failed. Some might argue that it worked in countries such as China and Russia (Asian countries).
But by far, we can see the Chinese and the Asian continent joining arms in capitalism across the world. Globalisation as a stimulant to know no boundaries has stimulated and forced global economies to find capitalism space on the planet earth.
Remember the Chinese and European revolutions of the late 1800s to 1917. What a quagmire!
EFF and NEFF will be a syndicalism which is a social movement that operates through industrial trade unions and rejects state socialism and the use of establishment politics to establish or promote socialism.
They reject using state power to construct a socialist society, favouring strategies such as the general strike, therefore yielding no difference to Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism and the Chinese revolution of 1917. What a road! What a tiring, effortless, and yet a bitter route!