The streak of colonialism can never be eradicated from history. Countries are still recovering economically from the exploitation of their country’s natural resources and labor. This instability has caused hierarchies to emerge within social classes. In Maren Hassinger’s piece Wrenching News she uses two mandalas to represent the hierarchy between the elites and the working class. She mixes the shredded newspapers in both of the mandalas to signify the unity she desires between the two groups. The unification of the elites and the working class will be only reached through the diminishing of the social hierarchy.
To initiate the African Revolution in Burkina Faso, Sankara use of Marxism is necessary. In the film, The Upright Man, Thomas …show more content…
The Harlem Renaissance enlightened others about the African American experience through works like Fire. Fire explores a multitude of issues including the class struggle. In Countee Cullen’s poem From the Dark Tower, he expresses the frustration of the non-privileged through a sowing and reaping analogy. He begins the poem by stating: “We shall not always plant while other reap” (Cullen 16). Cullen uses this line to illustrate that the main force behind the class struggle is the exploitation of individuals in the lower class. During colonialism, the bourgeois turned the “indigenous man into an instrument of production”(Cesaire 42). To build capital the bourgeoisie uses their influence to exploit the proletariat or the working class. Hassinger’s piece demonstrates the hierarchy of bourgeois over the working class through the organization of the mandalas. The mandala on the white wall represents the authority the elites had over the working class. The bourgeois saw the exploitation of the working class as opportunity to expand their capitalism. In “Discourse on Colonialism” Cesaire formulates “an equation: colonization = “thingification” that further explains the colonialism. Colonialism was based on capitalism; it strived on the exploitation of labor. The more ownership an individual had represented the amount of capital they received. As a result, their perceptive
To initiate the African Revolution in Burkina Faso, Sankara use of Marxism is necessary. In the film, The Upright Man, Thomas …show more content…
The Harlem Renaissance enlightened others about the African American experience through works like Fire. Fire explores a multitude of issues including the class struggle. In Countee Cullen’s poem From the Dark Tower, he expresses the frustration of the non-privileged through a sowing and reaping analogy. He begins the poem by stating: “We shall not always plant while other reap” (Cullen 16). Cullen uses this line to illustrate that the main force behind the class struggle is the exploitation of individuals in the lower class. During colonialism, the bourgeois turned the “indigenous man into an instrument of production”(Cesaire 42). To build capital the bourgeoisie uses their influence to exploit the proletariat or the working class. Hassinger’s piece demonstrates the hierarchy of bourgeois over the working class through the organization of the mandalas. The mandala on the white wall represents the authority the elites had over the working class. The bourgeois saw the exploitation of the working class as opportunity to expand their capitalism. In “Discourse on Colonialism” Cesaire formulates “an equation: colonization = “thingification” that further explains the colonialism. Colonialism was based on capitalism; it strived on the exploitation of labor. The more ownership an individual had represented the amount of capital they received. As a result, their perceptive