I have to do a presentation on Nelson Mandela's speech An Ideal For Which I Am Prepared To Die which he read out at his trial in 1964 for tutor. I have the abridged version from the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/greatspeec...059076,00.html
I think I get the gist of it, how Mandela and the ANC/Umkhonto we Sizwe wanted equality for every race in South Africa and resorted to violence and guerrilla warfare to further their cause.
I think there is a deeper/further meaning to this speech which I am missing. I've highlighted what I think are the main points but I've never really been any good at reading between the lines in texts. Can anybody help me?
Also, is what happened in SA during 1960 - 1964 comparable to what was happening in America with black segregation around the same time?
Last question, what is Marxism? I've wiki'd it but I don't quite understand what it's saying.