I wish you knew me way back, and how much I loved and craved for anything that has to do with Marxian analysis of Nigerian and global happenings albeit politics , literature including film theory.
No, doubt during college days as students of political science, leftist ideology was the toast of any serious minded social science and humanities majors. Need less to say we were wrong, society is never molded in the shape of any particular sociopolitical and economic ideology.
Even the U.S with all her flavor of unbridled capitalism, bowed humbly to the pizza pie of government intervention in economy vis a vis New deal policy during the 1930’s great depression.
For us in Nigeria with the benefit of historical hindsight; with the exemption of the likes of Claude Ake, Gbade Onimode, Baba Omojola, Bala Usman etaal. We haven’t had truly born, bred and butter Marxist revolutionary intellectual base for a while now.
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In our most recent history what we do have are bunch of intellectual sycophants who ride to prominence on the horseback of ‘Aluta’ and chant for masses freedom; only to reach the corridors of power and begin to clothes themselves in the Tonga of exploitation of the working class people(Civil servants, artisans, and other low income earners).
For those, who might be quick to say Marxism is dead and buried with the collapse of Soviets Union. I’m sorry to say but we mustn’t allow intellectual amnesia to cloud our sense of judgement. The fall of Soviets Union was midwife by the jettisoning of central economic planning to liberal capitalism by Mikhail Gorbachev vis a vis Perestroika and glasnot policies without considering local economic and sociopolitical conditions
Recent happenings around the world, such as the overwhelming votes enjoyed by Donald Trump, from the ragtag American working class people has shown to the world the ever prophetic assertion of Marx himself who succinctly mentioned ” The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle” which means the rich would always fight the poor which isn’t physical but rather economical and psychological.
Overtime I have learnt dialectical analysis can never be kick out of fancy. The simple believe that no singular ideology is the driver of economic prosperity.
