PROLETARIANIZATION AND CLASS CREATION

PROLETARIANIZATION AND CLASS CREATION

            Proletarianization is the process of making people proletarians. The proletarians are those who have nothing but labour to sell and meet their basic needs. They are also regarded as the "working class"

            In the communal societies, nobody owns anything, everything is owned by the community. But as time goes on, the strong exploits the weak, the intelligent dominates the unintelligent etc and as such, class is created. Domestication of animals requires land and the owners of the animal become the masters and the land owners also employ those that don't have land to farm for them (serfs and the lords). Businesses as at that time were owned by the family; people involving in blacksmiths, cloth weaving forms and class subsequently.

            The British government introduced the land enclosure system, where every landowner is expected to enclose their lands. Lands were used as at that time and therefore, it is expected to fence on their small lands together but there are some people who lack the money to finance the closing their land have to sell their land and this makes them landless and therefore, had to resort to selling of their labour in order to survive, this invention leads to the factory system where sophisticated machines are used to produce a large commodity of goods at a small period of time. People began to buy goods produced by the factories because it is neater and better than the cottage industries and so, industrialists have to close their own businesses and become workers to the factory owners.

            In France, land is allocated in small piece to the citizens but large areas were given to the bourgeoisie, the church which deprived the peasants to own large scale of land and therefore improvises them and so, it widens the gap between the proletariat and the capitalists; peasants are only involved in production and the capitalists engaged in selling out the produce to other parts of the country.

            Sometimes, the interest of the workers are not protected and so, they begin to protest and the bourgeois had to begin introducing welfare packages to reduce the tensions

            In Nigeria, at the initial stage corresponds to what is obtainable in Britain but at point in time, there was a divergence the point of contact with the Europeans, imported from the industrial nations. Our cottage industries became redundant because foreign goods are given more priority and acceptable.

            Most of the Africans become proletariat and some are peasant farmers to produce for the industries in Europe while others were employed to work for the European government to ensure that there is peace and order.

            After independence, the chain are placed on our leaders to enable them derive the necessary raw materials to their industries. Our leaders were being persuaded and dominated by the Europeans and any leader that refuses their demands is subjected to international ridicule and so we are indirectly controlled by them for their selfish needs.