Aba Bemba say, ‘Nga mule sumwa ne nshimu mwaishiba amuti mulepanda ubuchi.’
These are attacks are coming because we are having impact on the ground.
But what should be our reaction to these wanton, unbridled and uncouth attacks?
We turn to Winston Churchill’s very wise counsel on this score: “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
Everything has it’s time. This is the time for them to attack us. Our time to defend ourselves will also come. But to everything there are limits. There’s need for restraint, self limitation and modesty. Time to account for one’s utterances and deeds always comes – umulandu taubola.
This time of change is bringing us many ‘barking dogs’ to deal with. If we pay equal attention to all of them they will distract us from our revolutionary priorities.
We need to keep focused and on track. Keeping calm in times like these is very important and connecting with what matters most is the first step. Making clear sense of our situation is the second. Knowing which dogs matter, and which do not, is a third.
Knowing the strategies we can use to handle the dogs that we encounter helps us find a way forward with each one. Being clear about our destination, our strategic objective reminds us which direction to face, once we are past the barking dog
We will never reach our destination if we stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
Remembering this, and knowing which barking dogs to ignore and how to address the ones that matter, is another step to becoming antifragile.
We really need to know which barking dogs to ignore, which to pay attention to, and how to handle them.

Fred M’membe
President of the Socialist Party