Botha argues that the SACP wants to establish a communist dictatorship in South Africa and it is not interested in democracy. The SACP makes no secret of its socialist objective. We believe that most of the problems of the country are generated by capitalism and will only be solved when capitalism has been replaced by socialism. Capitalism means private enterprise, each man for himself and the devil take the hindmost. Socialism means common ownership of the means of production and distribution.
Socialism is a stage on the way to communism.
There is no contradiction between the fight for socialism and the fight for democracy. By giving full effect to democracy and by linking with each step of its struggle democratic demands formulated in the most resolute terms. It is absurd to contrapose the socialist revolution and the revolutionary struggle against capitalism to a single problem democracy, in this case, the national question. The African National Congress is a mass movement fighting for national liberation, the SACP is a Marxist-Leninist party fighting for socialism. Yet they are both committed to the Freedom Charter.