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MANDELA.
APARTHEID WITHIN EUROPEAN UNION AND COMMUNISM.
Antonio
García V. 06.12.2013
1964 Mandela's statement from the dock before the Supreme
Court of South Africa, at the opening of the trial on charges
of sabotage that, at 46, would mean for him 27 years in prison,
shows that Spain and other countries of the European Union
are imposing Apartheid within their borders.
The Apartheid
of the Europe of today is not between blacks and whites or
between whites and other ethnic groups. It's between the rich
and the poor. It creates an island of happiness in a sea of
misery
Mandela
is usually quoted to mention his words about education as
the great strategy against poverty and discrimination. He
is quoted as propaganda of "the fallacy of education".
To attribute
to education the ability to overcome the thousand obstacles
planted to create the wealth of a few ones for the price of
poverty of almost everyone, it's just a fallacy.
Mandela
expressed that to end poverty and discrimination there is
the need of:
a. a legislation that ensures equal opportunities
b higher wages that enable people to live; that is, to provide
his family with shelter, food, education and health
c. working conditions that ensure that the worker will be
allowed to participate in family life.
He said
that to "stop subsidies for African school feeding was
a cruel act “that deliberately leads to two social classes,
because these malnourished children do not enjoy equal opportunities
and become adults who suffer from physical deficiencies that
conspire against their ability to earn a living.
When Spain
and other countries impose starvation wages and eliminate
food assistance to children that desperately need it, they
are creating two social classes: the masters and the slaves.
Mandela
also said that when laws are made to empower a few people,
and to take away the rights of large majorities and when government
close the tracks that make it possible to eradicate in a peaceful
manner injustice and discrimination, there is no other way
than violence. And he declares in the process the moment came
when he was forced to choose this path, that he prepared himself
to play his role as leader of violent activities and that
he run sabotage operations.
He ended
his defense with this words: "I have cherished the ideal
of a democratic and free society in which all persons live
together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an
ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs
be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die".
While
dominant neoliberal oligarchies seize Mandela's words to sell
the fallacy of the education, the dominant populist oligarchies
seize Mandela to sell him as a pro communist leader and talk
about his friendship with Fidel Castro without mention he
just was grateful of Castro and Gaddafi and many other dictators
who helped him.
Mandela
was always an advocate of democracy and contrary to the dictatorship
of the supposed proletariat. And this is what he states once
and again in this speech. It must be noticed that Mandela
fought to ban communists from being members of the African
National Congress, the famous ANC, and that he accepted his
defeat on this issue within the ANC.
Mandela
claims to have agreed on receiving political support and economic
aid from communists just because the short-term goals of communism
coincided with the long-term goals of the ANC. But that in
the long-term these two movements absolutely disagree since
Mandela advocates for democracy, he supports the separation
of powers as a model of governance and he admires UK parliamentary
democracy and justice systems, which are institutions that
he wants for his country.
Antonio
García Varela, author
Antonio
García V. (a) Darío Varela
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