On the 18th of October 2023, the Students of the University of Fort Hare determined their course for the next 12 months. In the words of Marx & Engels, " All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. " Marx & Engels use this quote to highlight the power of a revolutionary transformation. This type of transformation is a sweeping one as it qualitatively and quantitatively transforms one society to another society. As Marx & Engels would say, 'it creates the world after its own image', therefore, the revolutionary transformation is not only a cosmetic change, but a thorough going process which fundamentally changes society from the marrow to the bone, to the skin. The 18th of October 2023 despite our sentimentalist views cannot be categorized in this orthodox Marxist understanding of how a revolution transforms society but c...
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