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Class Struggle A Case Study Of Festus Iyayi Violence And Animata Sow Falls The Beggers Strike
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NIGERIA
The
country is located in West Africa on an area of 356,667 sq mi and
shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and
Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south
lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. The three largest and
most influential ethnic groups in Nigeria are the Hausa, Igbo and
Yoruba. In terms of religion Nigeria is roughly split half and half
between Muslims and Christians with a very small minority who practice
traditional religion. Capital city is Abuja. Present president is
Goodluck Jonathan. Nigeria a former British colony became independent in
1st October 1960
The president's power is checked by a Senate and a
House of Representatives, which are combined in a bicameral body called
the National Assembly. The Senate is a 109-seat body with three members
from each state and one from the capital region of Abuja; members are
elected by popular vote to four-year terms. The House contains 360 seats
and the number of seats per state is determined by population. Nigeria
economy is largely based on petroleum.
Population is about 152million (2010estimate)
Total (nominal) GDP is $173.428 billion with per capita at $1,142
Life expectancy is 47 years
2010 Mo Ibrahim index of governance No.37 with a score of 43%
1.6.2 MARXIST-LENINIST THEORY OF SOCIETY
Marxism-Leninism
is coined to denote the ideology that Vladimir Lenin had built upon the
thought of Karl Marx. There are two broad areas that have set apart
Marxism-Leninism as a school of thought.
First, Lenin's followers
generally view his additions to the body of Marxism as the practical
aspect of Marx's original theoretical contributions of the 19th century.
Lenin called this time-frame the era of Imperialism.
Joseph Stalin
wrote that; “Leninism grew up and took shape under the conditions of
imperialism, when the contradictions of capitalism had reached an
extreme point, when the proletarian revolution had become an immediate
practical question, when the old period of preparation of the working
class for revolution had arrived at and passed into a new period, that
of direct assault on capitalismâ€
The most important consequence of a
Leninist-style theory of Imperialism is the strategic need for workers
in the industrialized countries to come together with the oppressed
nations contained within their respective countries and colonies abroad
in order to overthrow capitalism. This is the source of the slogan,
which shows the Leninist conception that not only the proletariat, as is
traditional to Marxism, are the sole revolutionary force, but all
oppressed people; “Workers and Oppressed Peoples of the World, Unite!â€
Second,
the other distinguishing characteristic of Marxism-Leninism is how it
approaches the question of organization. Lenin believed that the
traditional model of the Social Democratic parties of the time, which
was a loose, multitendency organization was inadequate for overthrowing
the Tsarist regime in Russia. He proposed a cadre of professional
revolutionaries that disciplined itself under the model of Democratic
Centralism.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The Concept of Class struggle describes the constant conflict among the existing strata in every society. The purpose of this academic research is to explore the meaning and important of class struggle in the context of the selected texts. The theoretical framework for this research is the Marxist-Leninist theory, which could be simply summarized as the reaction of the exploited to get rid of exploitation and the exploiters. Various styles used by the duo of Iyayi and Falls is described. In the ... Continue reading---
