socialism or barbarism

The outbreak of violence in South Africa has clear economic causes. The townships and shanty towns around Johannesburg are riven by unemployment, social breakdown and economic ruin. People become desperate and left without any alternatives - turn on the scapegoats. From a Marxist perspective this is s terrible failure. For the ruling classes a boon. Their class enemy fights amongst itself, satiates itself and new riot police techniques get to be tried out. Meanwhile thousands of people are left destitute. This thrashing around of the working class is an indication of the economic turbulence convulsing the world at the moment. The S.African government is contemplating declaring a state of emergency. Soon, there may well be a world wide one. . .