EDITORIAL: Swapo must regain its leftist ideals

Ever since the decline of Marxist-Leninist politics in Swapo, the party has become – as some called it this week – a special purpose vehicle for elites seeking to advance their parochial interests.It’s no wonder the party’s war veterans, who have watched it degenerate into an entity for personal gain, stood up this week to call to order the Johnny-come-latelies who now profess to be more Swapo than Swapo itself.The former combatants want Swapo to return to the days when it was a truly voluntary organisation, joined only by those who believed in its ideological posture, leftist vision and ethos. Prior to becoming an ‘eating party’, Swapo prided itself on being an organisation that sought political supremacy to wrest state power from the colonial bourgeoisie, for the purpose of centralising all the means of production into the hands of the worker and peasant masses.Today, the means of production are neither in the hands of the workers nor the peasant masses. Instead, they are concentrated in the hands of the politically-connected elite as well as their cronies and frontmen. This is done while trampling not only on the party’s constitution, but its ideals too.Dr Charles Mubita’s views on The Evening Review this week, where he tore opportunists and newcomers to shreds, were a perfect Freudian slip which revealed the true feelings among the party’s war veterans.

EDITORIAL: Swapo must regain its leftist ideals

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Namibian Sun 2025-05-07

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EDITORIAL: Swapo must regain its leftist ideals

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