Carol Paton was mugged! (We must be brave and talk about white monopoly capitalism, May2). She innocently attended a panel discussion not knowing what she would be dealing with. First clue: the title of the debate given by the workerist university institute that hosted the event was White Monopoly Capitalism vs Radical Economic Transformation. Second clue: Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, the EFF’s national spokesman, was participating. Ndlozi is a dab hand at turning a debate into an emotive, one-sided rant. Ndlozi happily employs the tactic of personalising a generalisation and uses self-righteous anger to do so. Third clue: there was an audience. For Ndlozi that would be like breathing oxygen. Debating anything in this country before an audience that is predominantly left-wing is likely to be a harsh experience for the non-orthodox view. Paton was asked whether she was, by virtue of her whiteness and her support for private investment and enterprise, the epitome of WMC? The phrasing of the ques...
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