ABSTRACT
This book has discussed many ideas about the current situation in South Africa/Aza-nia and the rest of Africa as understood from the vantage point of Black working-class women and men. Many theorists on South Africa or Africa may view the revolutionary option proposed here as "unrealistic" or "unlikely." They may argue that the Black working classes will not desire to pursue the revolutionary alternative. Certainly, one cannot prognosticate as to what will occur in South Africa/Azania or on the continent over the next decade or two. For us as South Africans/Azanians, the important question is: How can those of us who are committed to reshaping the future of South Africa/Azania and the rest of Africa ensure that the vast majority of the continent's people, the rural peasantry working classes, become uplifted and liberated, able to equitably own the resources of the continent and enjoy the fruits of their labor? Africa's working classes are entitled to enjoy the rights of adequate food, decent shelter, gainful employment, a sound and enlightened education, proper health care, social security, and development of their full human potential, as inalienable human rights. If there is another path to the attainment of these goals outside of the revolutionary path, we certainly are willing to enter the discussion of such avenues. However, given the historical and contemporary objective conditions in South Africa/Azania in particular, and Africa in general, we see such possibilities as extremely slim.
