When Julius Malema speaks of the need to use violence to reach the EFF’s revolutionary objectives, it is useful to bear in mind Benito Mussolini’s call that armed action was ‘needed at once or we shall never do it’ – which was followed by the ‘March on ...
The EFF’s latest trick – to bring the country to a standstill – has ominous echoes of Benito Mussolini’s march on Rome and the widespread violence that took place before, during and after that epochal event.
Like Mussolini, the EFF’s leader Julius Malema is a masterful orator who taps into dissent over poverty, inequality and perceptions – or the reality – of a loss of power and influence. This belief in losses runs deep in the EFF imagination; in some instances they are real, depending only on what measure of compromise one believes is necessary for political progress.
Mussolini would be handed power by the king out of fear that he would plunge the country into intractable violent conflict. It helped, of course, that through his black shirts, like Malema’s “ground forces”, Mussolini had for months used violence to harass and intimidate political opponents and communities, mainly in and around cities like Rome and Naples.
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