The unresolved National Question in South Africa : left thought under apartheid and beyond / edited by Edward Webster and Karin Pampallis.

Includes bibliographies and index.

880-01 Preface / Edward Webster and Karin Pampallis -- Introduction : revisiting the national question / Edward Webster and John Mawbey -- part one. Key foundational traditions -- 1. Decentring the question of race : critical reflections on colonialism of a special type / Jeremy Cronin and Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo -- 2. The African National Congress : social democratic thinking and the good society, 1940-1962 / Robert van Niekerk -- 3. Oliver Tambo and the national question / Luli Callinicos -- 4. The unity movement and the national question / Basil Brown, Mallet Pumelele Giyose, Hamilton Petersen, Charles Thomas and Allan Zinn -- 5. The Africanist turn in South African national question discourses / Siphamandla Zondi -- part two. Continuity and rupture -- 6. Vicissitudes of the national question : Afrikaner style / T. Dunbar Moodie -- 7. Neville Alexander and the national question / Enver Motala and Salim Vally -- 8. The Marxist workers' tendency of the African National Congress / Martin Legassick -- 9. The national question confronts the ethnic question / Gerhard Mar�e -- 10. Variations on a Zulu theme / Ari Sitas -- 11. Black consciousness as nationalism of a special type / Xolela Mangcu -- 12. Postponing the national question : feminism and the women's movement / Shireen Hassim -- 13. Workerists and the national question / Alec Erwin -- 14. Red, black and gold : FOSATU, South African 'workerism', syndicalism and the nation / Sian Byrne, Nicole Ulrich and Lucien van der Walt -- 15. National democratic revolution meets constitutional democracy / Daryl Glaser.

The re-emergence of debates on the decolonisation of knowledge has revived interest in the National Question, which began over a century ago and remains unresolved. Tensions that were suppressed and hidden in the past are now being openly debated. Despite this, the goal of one united nation living prosperously under a constitutional democracy remains elusive. This volume examines the way in which various strands of left thought have addressed the National Question, especially during the apartheid years, and goes on to discuss its relevance for South Africa today and in the future. Contributors have defined the question as they believe appropriate, which has resulted in a rich tapestry of interweaving perceptions about the unresolved National Question. The volume is structured in two parts. The first examines four foundational traditions - Marxism-Leninism (the Colonialism of a Special Type thesis); the Congress tradition; the Trotskyist tradition; and Africanism. The second part explores the various shifts in the debate from the 1960s onwards, and includes chapters on Afrikaner nationalism, ethnic issues, Black Consciousness, feminism, workerism and constitutionalism. By revisiting these debates, the volume will become a catalyst for an enriched debate on our identity and our future.

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