World Socialist Web Site attacks Bishop Desmond Tutu for criticizing neo-liberal development policy

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According to them, Bishop Tutu is a life long opponent of the social transformation of South Africa.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/tutu-d14.shtml

Tutu, COSATU and the “powder keg” of South Africa
By our South African correspondent
14 December 2004

A vicious spat between Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the African National Congress (ANC) has erupted in the wake of the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture delivered by Tutu on November 29.

Tutu’s speech was entitled “Look to the rock from which you were hewn.”
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There is some merit in the Archbishop’s concerns. Vast inequality is not politically sustainable, and ultimately, is incompatible with democratic forms of rule. However, he speaks, not as an advocate of the poor, but rather as one of the foremost proponents of the current regime, a staunch defender of South African capitalism and a lifelong opponent of social revolution. In effect, Tutu is warning the ANC that a too hasty implementation of its free market agenda could have a profoundly destabilising effect on South African society.

[cali]

1. sick. but what can anyone expect from that deranged shitbag rag?

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2. As far as I can tell they hate everyone who is not ...

a part of their splinter of a splinter of a splinter of a Trotsyite faction. Tutu falls outside that splinter, so he's a "counter-revolutionary."

Amazing how some people here think they are the gospel truth!

[bluestateguy]

3. That site is full of keyboard warriors who just bitch and complain and never DO anything

nt

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4. They're even worse than that. They are slave labor cranking out cult literature nt

[endarkenment]

5. yeah amen unlike DU which is a site full of keyobard warriors

who just bitch and complain and never DO anything.

Oh wait...

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10. Speak for yourself

Some of us actually have done stuff. WSWS cultists, however, who think all left of center organizations are bad probably have nothing to join up with and therefore do nothing but bitch on their keyboards.

[endarkenment]

6. Just out of curiosity, have you recently lost your mind?

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7. You sound like a Jim Jones loyalist who just heard Paster Jones is banging ...

a number of parishoners, while mixing up batches of Kool aid. The truth hurts, doesn't it?

[endarkenment]

8. so that would be "yes"

[HamdenRice]

9. WSWS: Polanski (child rapist)=hero. Tutu (MLK of S. Africa) = villain.

Now who are you accusing of being crazy? Looks like cult members of WSWS are very, very **ahem** mentally out there to defend this crap.

[tabatha]

11. 14 December 2004

[malletgirl02]

12. Neo liberal

From what I understand about neo liberalism that it is the opposite of Socialism. Neo liberalism is just putting a nice face on capitalism. I'm sure you heard of the Washington consensus. It seems to me that these people don't know what they are talking about. I wouldn't waste time on them.