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Talking Marxism But Serving Capitalism in South Africa
Glen Ford, BAR executive editor
14 May 2019
🖨️ Print Article

South Africa is the only place in the world where the entire Black political class speaks in the language of Marxism-Leninism, even when they are in cahoots with Big Capital.

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