Towards Emancipation

Abolition of classes! Abolition of private property! Abolition of exploitation in all it's forms! The nature of our society is, unfortunately, such that the general public hardly knows what exactly it is supposed to know, and ignore what ought to be ignored. The people find themselves consuming only that knowledge which their governments and ruling classes want them to consume. The truths about our societies are often concealed and distorted, the result consequently being that the people find themselves hating and condemning, even dreading, those whose activities are geared towards their own benefit, and adoring and celebrating those whose mission it is to run down the society and those whose drive it is to fulfill their private interests at the expense of the compact majority. The people, oftentimes, find themselves supporting the oppressors and vilifying the oppressed. But are they to blame for this? A quick understanding of the nature of the organization of the society would p...

The economic,social and political development of the African people in the past few centuries has been, needless to mention, peculiar. In the global stage, the past five hundred years have witnessed the primitive accumulation of wealth in preparation for the dawn of the capitalist era, the agitation therefrom for the abolition of the feudal system of economic production, the onset of the capitalist mode of production and consequently the advancement of modern industry, the advent of monopoly capital and the rise of imperialism and colonialism, and, finally, neocolonialism. The peculiarity of Africa in this case is that it is not at the centre of these developments; it is at the periphery.  Africa is not the initiator of these advancements, it is the recepient. For the primitive accumulation of capital necessary for industrilization in Europe, Africa had to suffer the capture and enslavement of its people in merciless fashion. During the advent of the capitalist mode of production ...