Mailbox: Is the ANC following a communist playbook?
Key topics:
ANC’s policies compared to Alinsky’s 8 steps to communism
Rob Hersov outspoken on ANC’s alleged socialist agenda
Concern over NHI, BELA Act, and welfare control mechanisms
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By James Barnard
Hi Alec,
Enjoy the content you and your team provide.
Currently there is a lot of talk regarding the ANC, with their socialistic / communistic rule agenda.
Thankfully, Rob Hersov is very verbal, in exposing this truth and calling them out for it.
What I find interesting is that very few people have heard of Saul Alinsky, with the 8 steps to communism.
Maybe something we should educate people about, to better understand, why there is this talk about the ANC’s communistic ideology?
My take on it in summary below: Information from web – The Daily Mining Gazette
These are the eight levels of controls by Saul Alinsky to transform a nation through socialism into communism.
Step 1:
Healthcare
Control health care and you control the people.
ANC – NHI
Step 2:
Poverty
Increase the poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you provide everything for them to live.
ANC – Highest unemployment rate in the world, in conjunction with SASSA
Step 3:
Debt
Increase the debt level to unsustainable level. That way you can increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
ANC – VAT increase. Electricity, fuel, and other tariff increases.
Step 4:
Gun Control
Remove the ability to defend themselves from government. That way, you are able to create a police state.
ANC – New gun ownership laws, and the newly created laws aimed at the private security industry.
Step 5:
Welfare
Take control of every aspect (food, housing, income) of their lives because that will make them fully dependant on the government.
ANC – SASSA, and the basic income grant. Also moving in on commercial farming to secure food and government control.
Step 6:
Education
Take control of what people read and listen to and take control of what children learn in school.
ANC – The Bela act. Moving all the control to the state.
Step 7:
Religion
Remove belief in God from the government and schools because the people need to believe in only the government.
ANC – Religion removed from schools, with more limitations to be implemented through the Bela act.
Step 8:
Class warfare.
Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. Eliminate the middle class.
This will cause more discontent, and it will be easier to tax the wealthy with the support of the poor.
ANC – Wealth tax, new BBBEE funding platform, and various other policies driving the divide / tax model.
This is my view, and possibly an opportunity for discussion and better understanding.
All the best.