Student Manifesto Analysis

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For the student manifesto essay, I will be tackling multiple contemporary societal problems. I will give a brief history of how and why the problems have arisen, explain why the problems are critical, and give possible solutions, both short and long term. Some of the problems I plan on discussing are systematic and individual racism, the institution of policing, poverty, complexities of feminism, health inequity, ableism, prison abuse, and global inequality. All the problems I will talk about will be analyzed through lenses critiquing how capitalism, racism, and classism uphold the systems of injustice enacted by the State.

As I will be arguing for a social revolution, I will explain what I define as being revolutionary and why revolution

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