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Karl Marx's Theory Of Decolonization

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Decolonisation is the change that colonised countries go through when they become politically independent from their former colonisers. However, decolonisation is not merely a matter of political independence.

One of the most commonly cited definitions of Africanisation by proponents of the process is offered by Ramose (1998) in his foreword to Black Perspective(s) on Tertiary Institutional Transformation. He states that Africanisation embraces the understanding that ‘the African experience’ is not only the ‘foundation’ of all forms of knowledge, but also the ‘source’ for the construction of that knowledge. Ramose (1998) goes on to assert that while the ‘African experience’ is non-transferable it is indeed communicable, but only by the African. Having made this assertion he goes further, stating

Louw (2010) views Africanisation as a way of transcending individual identities, seeking commonality, as well as a way of recognising and embracing otherness. In so doing we might be able to connect with the broader African experience and …show more content…

The result being that the poor remain poor while the wealth acquired by the propertied class increases. Marx applied the term pauperization for the process by which the working class becomes increasingly poor in relation to the capitalists (Marx & Engels, 1967, Giddens, 2006, Seekings, 2007). In South Africa despite the independence which ended the apartheid period, decolonization and Africanisation have not shown much tangible changes. Blacks are still the poorest, they don’t own the means of production all they have is their labour to sell. Workers are still being exploited, disenchanted and oppressed (Intellicom, 2012) remarked that capitalism as a mode of production is still in place and its process of amassing wealth is still an ongoing process despite the end of apartheid exploitation is of continues

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