SACP denounces attacks and lies peddled by proto-fascist and right-wing opposition parties in Parliament
14 February 2019
Liberal-conservative attacks
The DA, a liberal-conservative party that seeks to curtail the role of the democratically elected government of South Africa in the post-1994 period and thus expand space for the control of the economy by capitalist private wealth accumulation interests, used debates on the State of the Nation Address in Parliament, Cape Town, on Wednesday, 13 February 2019, to attack the national democratic revolutionary Alliance headed by the ANC. It is a fact that the architecture of the prevailing capitalist mode of production in South Africa was designed in the interests of imperialism, imposed colonially and furthered through apartheid.
The liberal ideology that seeks to curtail the role of the democratically elected government in the economy inevitably seeks to feed the roots of racial supremacy and thereby conserve the racist economic legacy that dates back to colonialism and apartheid. The conservatives who supported colonialism as clearly defended by the DA’s Helen Zille, and who benefitted from apartheid and white privilege, took refuge in liberalism post-1994. They viewed the ANC-led democratically elected government through racial lenses as a black government that had to be kept out of the economy in line with liberalism. This employment of liberalism in South Africa is essentially racist regardless of the mask on its face. The SACP strongly condemns it.
Proto-fascist attacks