Well, it's not an attack on me; it's an attack on the IEC. These are their results, right? So, if the DA dreams about the free market, the EFF dreams about an all-powerful Father Christmas state that will deliver everything and anything to everybody overnight. [Applause.] And let me tell you: It's not simple Mao suits of the 1960s they want for all; it's Louis Vuitton red overalls. [Laughter.] [Applause.] "Nationalise," they say. "Nationalise" and, hey presto, everything gets solved.
This is idealism of the worst sort. The EFF claims to be Marxist. Where is the historical materialism? No assessment of the historical juncture, of the concrete economic and political terrain, of the domestic and global balance of forces, of the strength of the state, of the readiness of the working class and its allies for socialism. And where, exactly, is the EFF's socialist-struggle working-class base? Where is their trade union movement? Where are the workers? Where in the world? When did Lenin and Marx say that the youth would be the revolutionary motive force for socialism? Not Lenin, not Marx and not the other great hero, the great Frantz Fanon, ever said that. [Interjections.]
So, why this youth fundamentalism? Everybody beyond Malema's age is a reject, is a hack. Yet they admire China. What is the average age of members of the central committee or the government of China? [Interjections.]