charterist
- noun
- Archaic
- The role of the Freedom Charter and the aims of a non-racial and united democratic South Africa are, it is true, vague, but they were indisputably central to the politicization, mobilization, and organization of the Charterist movement, perhaps because of their very indeterminacy.
- Charterist movement
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Both the Black Consciousness and the Charterist movements formulated their basic approaches and built their organizational structures during periods of relative economic growth and, more significantly, during diminished repression.
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As a charterist, she actively promoted the principles of the Freedom Charter within her community.
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Hence, it is necessary to point to the ideological and discursive aspects of the Charterist movement.
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Comparing COSATU with the BCM and the Charterists, he argues:
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Charterist leaders had largely taken such coherence for granted, building local and national structures linked more by shared resources and the influence of charismatic leaders than by formal structures.
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Even the Charterists' central ideological concept of national identity was determined by and subordinated to strategic imperatives.
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23 And, according to Marx, it was the Charterists, with their more pragmatic and materialist political strategy, who were best able to exploit the new terrain of struggle.
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Eschewing the exclusivist and sophisticated philosophy of the BCM, Charterists concentrated on the practical mobilization and organization of specific communities and constituencies.
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These tensions are important in determining the political articulations which Charterists were able to construct in the 1980s, as well as the interactions between Charterism and other ideological formations.
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It is not entirely appropriate (or pragmatic) to suggest that the BCM was totally idealistic or that the Charterists and the early independent trade unions were totally pragmatic.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Charterist uses the same parts: charter ('a written statement of rights') and -ist ('a supporter'), so a charterist was a person who supported the Freedom Charter in South African history and its ideas for rights and equality.
