If you take a stand then watch out. It may not matter what you actually do or say it will matter what you are supposed to h ave done and said. How your words are twisted, how your image is twisted and put to use. Mandela was a revolutionary. Mandela with Joe Slovo and Chris Hani who was later assasinated. The power of PR is a weapon of political and psychological warfare. People may be co-opted without even noticing it. The core objective of all the rum and butter flattery of Mandela: The flattery of Hollywood, the opposition in South Africa, reactionary governments around the world, and the bourgeoisie media, is to neuter him as a symbol of revolutionary change. The Mandela doll politics of the opposition in South Africa, where they both vaunt him and manipulate his historical significance at the same time are insulting. Mandela has aligned himself with Zuma, Mandela is an long standing ally of the South African Communist Party. Blade Mzimande makes the point c learly in
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