The Primitive Accumulation and the Double-Movement.
The excessiveness of the oil industry in the Delta region has disposed of the owners of the Niger Delta lands. This dispossession emanates from the manner in which capitalism puts production and profit making above other interests in the region. According to Karl Marx, “the capitalist system can be none other than the process that takes away from the laborer the possession of his means of production.” Marx would say that the behavior of Nigerian government and the corporations have “divorced the producers (the Niger Delta people) from their means (the lands and rivers) of production.”
Having watched the modus operandi of these companies led the native’s to conclude that transnational corporations’ …show more content…
Even though the campaign was ineffective, it managed to draw organizations such as Human Rights Watch, Green Peace, Amnesty International and some UN agency’s attention to the issue. In response to the resistance movement, the then military leader, Sani Abacha, believed that killing the activists would reduce the disgruntlement, and demonstrate his regime’s boldness . Thus, the environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others were executed in 1995. It was this act that turned the peaceful resistant into violent, low-intensity conflict in the …show more content…
However, the opposite was the case. Funds for projects that would have benefited the poor and the marginalized frequently have been embezzled or used for different purposes rather than for their original
The excessiveness of the oil industry in the Delta region has disposed of the owners of the Niger Delta lands. This dispossession emanates from the manner in which capitalism puts production and profit making above other interests in the region. According to Karl Marx, “the capitalist system can be none other than the process that takes away from the laborer the possession of his means of production.” Marx would say that the behavior of Nigerian government and the corporations have “divorced the producers (the Niger Delta people) from their means (the lands and rivers) of production.”
Having watched the modus operandi of these companies led the native’s to conclude that transnational corporations’ …show more content…
Even though the campaign was ineffective, it managed to draw organizations such as Human Rights Watch, Green Peace, Amnesty International and some UN agency’s attention to the issue. In response to the resistance movement, the then military leader, Sani Abacha, believed that killing the activists would reduce the disgruntlement, and demonstrate his regime’s boldness . Thus, the environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others were executed in 1995. It was this act that turned the peaceful resistant into violent, low-intensity conflict in the …show more content…
However, the opposite was the case. Funds for projects that would have benefited the poor and the marginalized frequently have been embezzled or used for different purposes rather than for their original