| | In 1976 Joe Slovo, as a leader of the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP), and the intellectual force behind many of those movements' modern positions, published a remarkable essay, South Africa - No Middle Road. Laying out a reasonable argument for the revolutionary struggle in South Africa, it is one of the classics of international communism. The argument it advanced that there was no middle road for the oppressed of South Africa except a left wing revolutionary road, was a double argument: instead of a middle road of peaceful pressure to achieve national liberation, the only road was armed liberation struggle; and instead of a middle road between capitalism and socialism, national liberation was inseparable from socialist revolution. |
