National Democratic Revolution

The ideology of the ANC can really be summed up as black race consciousness plus Leninism.

And the Leninist element is the two-stage national democratic revolution.

So the first revolution is a nationalist revolution whereby you gain control of the levels of power in the economy.

And the second phase is where you use those to transform society into a socialist economy.

But the consequences of this is that they're not firmly embedded in what they used to call white monopoly capital.

So this means that the AC is stuck in a stalemate.

I mean, they're heading towards a position where they have enough balance of forces to declare that they've finished the first phase of the National Democratic Revolution finally.

But they're sort of pussyfooting around the big decisions because investors can still threaten them with a bad time.

Nothing is exempt.

And I think it kind of reveals a tendency within the African National Congress, and this is related to the ideas of the National Democratic Revolution, this kind of Marxist-Leninist idea that the ANC is not just a political party, but a movement,

a revolutionary

movement that must reorder society in its own image.

The decision to organize peasant cooperatives marked an important historical event.

Under the leadership of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, the history of our Kampuchean revolution clearly shows that the peasant cooperatives play a decisive role in achieving the great and victorious national democratic revolution." End quote.

Maybe that sounds better in Khmer.

But aside from just giving you a taste of the laborious language the communists employed to communicate, I just want to use this as a primer, again, so we can see how the party itself looks at its own policies and self-reasoning to inform the worldview that they were operating in and how they saw their own actions.

So this document is kind of celebrating the start of that process.

It's, it, the anniversary, the three-year anniversary of it.

But the other thing they sort of mention in there, which can be a bit confusing, is that they say that this was essential and reference the great and victorious national democratic revolution, basically being victorious in what they call a national democratic revolution because of the collectivization of the peasantry.

And what they're actually talking about there, the national democratic revolution, that just basically means the Cambodian Civil War.

So it seems as though they just basically said, look, however many of these transactions you give us, that equals, you know, you can just keep going until presumably you drain the whole fiscus.

Money was taken from health programs, including HIV, AIDS, tuberculosis and child nutrition in order to pay for this.

The company involved was KMTV Media, which is directed by former City Press editor Kato Mamila, who was awarded the contract, and by DOTS Design Agency and directed by businessman Musa Kobo.

So the ministers have basically said they want the SIU to investigate their own department.