Andile Zulu | The Economic Freedom Fighters has switched from the teachings of Fanon and Lenin to the interests of chiefs and kings.
, was passionately calling for the poor and homeless to occupy land, regardless of the legal consequences. Four years later, the party’s leadership in Limpopo is rebuking a land occupation in defence of a royal family that wants to enhance its unearned privilege by building a palace and shopping mall.
In the years since its founding, it seems that the EFF’s commitment to socialism is increasingly becoming a matter of political expediency and shallow populism. Securing executive power through the ballot box, even at the cost of policy flip-flopping and ideological coherence, seems to be the name of the game for the EFF.
To overcome the titanic power of monarchs, aristocrats and capitalists, socialists have tried throughout modern history, with varying success and failure, to struggle against two kinds of tyranny: economic exploitation and political oppression. If a person or social institution has the power to restrict the freedom of others, and if we consider freedom to be a foundational element to leading a meaningful human life, then that power must be justified. And if the authority of a person or social institution cannot be reasonably justified — morally, ethically, legally — then the power they wield is illegitimate and undeserving of submission.
Democratic forms of governance are not immune to corrupting or authoritarian forces. But hereditary rule is exceptionally vulnerable to abuse and instability because important matters of governance can end up hinging on the whims, wishes and narrow political interests of an individual. The responsibility and privilege of serving others through leadership must be earned, not granted because of bloodlines.
Once again, Malema spreads the myth that those who share a racial identity, in this instance black identity, will have harmonious political interests. This kind ofwould have us naively believe that institutions exclusively governed by black people will always work towards the benefit of all black people. Such simplistic thinking overlooks the profound socio-economic divisions among black South Africans, which mould political interests in divergent directions, be it progressive or reactionary.
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