180 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points

Rank: Unranked Obibini

1.5 years, 3 countries, 9 classes, 12 subsections, 40 pages, and 14,247 words later…

“Globalization & Urban Class Structure in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Case Studies from Johannesburg, Soweto, and Tshwane”

“Considering the twin challenges brought about by globalization and capitalist development: racialism and classism, what global class categories do Afrikans and Afrikan descendants belong to? Although capitalism and globalization have its supporters and opponents, and the latter group is known to utilize class analysis such as Marxism, which is critical of the capitalist nature and principles of the global political economy, such analysis often fundamentally subscribes to the very same principles of capitalist development: western ideology, racialism and racial subjugation.

As a result, Afrikans and Afrikan descendants (as well as other non-Western and non-European people) are often marginalized in class analysis of capitalism. Therefore, there is an international need for conceptualizations of class, capitalism, and globalization from non-European, and thus post-Marxist perspectives. The following study is an attempt to produce a preliminary, rudimentary, yet sophisticated analysis of class from a pro- and pan-Afrikan perspective.”

If I do this right, it will be applicable in both underdeveloped and developed nations.

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