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ON MARXISM AND GLOBALISM A preliminary outline by Baba Aye "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways – the point is to change it" Karl Marx Theses on Feurbach INTRODUCTION The documented history of communistic thoughts and ideas could be traced to the "collectivist doctrines from Plato" (1). These stemming from an Athenian democracy that had freemen and slaves held in thrall i.e. a socially stratified society or a class divided socio-economic formation as it were, it is believed in some quarters could have been a mediated reflection of the preserved memory of "earlier, more just, more equal societies" or what is considered as "primitive communism" (2) A number of the major religions in the world also have their roots in that period of the subsuming of "primitive communism" by forces unleashed by

He died as he lived, a slave to convictions greater than life itself. The struggle continues today; 41 years after that dastardly act of the murder of one of the finest combatants that ever lived as a revolutionary.

The fire still burns! Into the depths of many oceans Gone by, bearing the turbulence Of human kind, staring thus into The future, were your eyes ...to many now, just a face on a Teeshirt, but undoubtedly with its Illuminating light, alike to a secular Christ The mountains of Bolivia still cry The drops of the tears scream aloud The possibility of another world Many Vietnams have arisen; tongs of fire On the breasts of the big satan that ascribes "America" to its northern arrogance of united Idiocy Their temples today quake, their priests eat unleavened Bread and your blood soaks the earth, igniting fires that Will consume them The new man, the new woman, the new world Will be born, on these trenches you left ...at these barricades we still defend You died not in vain Che Our battle cry remains; Viva la Revolucion!

SOCIO-ECONOMIC DYNAMICS OF NIGERIA AND NEPAD The Challenge of Social Transformation “Regime change is our stand; mass resistance is our vehicle; and system change is our goal” ---Chima Ubani: August 31, 2005 INTRODUCTION We have taken the liberty to re-phrase the topic we have been asked to address which was couched as socio-economic peculiarities of Nigeria and NEPAD, for the following reasons: While we do not doubt that certain “peculiarities” exist in the socio-economic realities of every society (read nation, community, religion, sub-region, etc) at each stage in the historical evolution of the human race, we daresay that globalization is challenging us with “universalisation” in a sense. It is also important to avoid falling into the pit-falls of a distinct “Nigerian personality” or “reality”, akin to the befuddled premises of such theorizing as those of “African socialism” I am of the opinion that we might be more concerned with the dynamics of our socio-