How this quotation explains the current socio-economic life and political situation in nigeria. All human history is th history of class struggle conflict and expolitation?

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The statement "All human history is the history of class struggle." is perhaps the most ingenious and yet simplest quote ever written. This quote is very accurate as it reminds us of how human beings have been divided and distributed to different class structures. In Nigeria, a nation formerly under the control and influence of European imperialists during the 19th to mid-20th Century, has encountered most of its problems such as strife, ethnic groupings, and the war to control the government. In the 1960s, Nigeria, which was free of its former European sovereigner, was under the main control of the Ibo, a group in the Southeast which had great influence over Nigerian politics. Other groups of Nigeria launched violent massacres and riots against the Ibo whom they opposed and detested. In the southeast region where the Ibo mainly lived was a Colonel who had helped in a previous coup of the Nigerian government. This military man, Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, the governor of the Southeast region, declared the region's independence from Nigeria and declared it the Republic of Biafra. From May 30, 1967 to January 15, 1970, the struggling Biafran republic was in the middle of a conflict that was to determine its fate. Although receiving backing from the French and Rhodesians, the red-block Soviets supported the Nigerians and even initated a naval blockade against Biafra. The Biafrans fought onward even though overwhelmed by the Soviet's blockade along with starvation, believing that if Biafra succumbed it would be wiped off the map through genocide. The Biafrans eventually succumbed and the Southeast was re-established to Nigeria. In the Biafran War, nearly 1 million citizens as well as hundreds of thousands of troops from both side perished in the war as a result of starvation or the war itself. After the Biafran War, some Western European nations may have thought whether it was a good idea to abdicate sovereignty and carve their former colonial empires into sectors for the indigeneous people. After the creation of the UN, the Trutseeship Council managed colonies that were willing to be separated from the Western European leadership. After these nations were liberated, they transformed themselves from one time colonies to the third or either fourth world. The period from independence was usually filled with bloodshed against religious and or ethnical groups that happened to be minorities or rivals. In India, following independence from the British Empire in 1947, was plunged in a period of extreme violence and killings in which was to Gandhi's disappointment. In order to protest these riots against both Hindus and Muslims, Gandhi protested by engaging himself in a hunger strike. The two religious groups, unwilling to see the crusader for independence perish, called off attacks against one another, restoring a temporarily stable peace for India. Believing Gandhi had disgraced the native Hindu cause by tolerating Muslims, a Hindu extremist shot and killed Gandhi, ending all hopes for avoiding war. As a result, the violence and bloodshed would continue as both religious groups would encounter one another on their exoduses from either India to Pakistan or the other way around. Two states had emerged as a result of the exoduses: the Islamic State of Pakistan and the Indian Republic ruled by a Hindu-majority. The two states would engage each other in several wars, one in which secured the independence of Hindu-inhabited East Pakistan, which became Bangladesh in the early 1970s. The teachings of Karl Marx, the author of the then hardly read Communist Manifesto, wrote and argued once the quote in the first paragraph. He observed each time period from Ancient Rome to the then industrializing Europe and observed each class or social grouping at each time period. Succeeding Rome's fall was the Feudal Era (or Middle Ages) and succeeding that was the Capitalist Era, rooming with the "Bourgeosie." In several of his writings, Marx describes a contrast between the working-class and repressed proletariat to the greedy and middle-class "Bourgeosie" who owned the factories and exploited the proletariat. Marx, in addition, claimed that the means of production were in the hands of the Bourgeosie who would dominate the factories and benefit from the working person's hard labor. Having measured world history up to 1848 in separate social periods that described each class division, Marx believed that the Capitalist Era would eventually collapse to a revolution of the Proletariat, which would oust the "bourgeosie" capitalists from owning the means of production. To replace the previous and ousted Era, the dicatorship of the Proletariat would follow the capitalist era. With the means of production in the hands of the proletariat and ruling class, the era of the dicatorship of the proletariat would eventually fold into a classless society somewhat like a utopia. Marx's teachings were just basically explained in the previous sentences of the paragraph. From the publication of his Communist Manifesto, written alongside the factory owner-turned-socialist Fredrich Engels, in 1848, very few Europeans read his pamphlet as many European regimes at the time were experiencing massive riots and revolutions at the time. Marx and Engels may have thought that the period of the dicatorship of the proletariat was beginning until the revolutions were all but quashed by the regal regimes, becoming only successful in France where King Louis-Phillippe, the Citizen King, was ousted from power and replaced with the Second French Republic headed by Napoleon Bonaparte's nephew who ran as President. (Charles Napoleon, President of the Republic at the time, would later in the early 1850s stage a coup d'etat of the government which would overthrow the French Republic and install a Second French Empire headed by him who would rule as Emperor Napoleon III.) Many of Marx's teachings may have came from the French utopian socialist movement that emerged in Western Europe following the Napoleonic Wars. Under such teachers as Fourier, the French utopian movement would contribute many ideas to the emerging left-wing of politics. So, Marx, in his pamphlet and other books such as Das Kapital written decades after the Communist Manifesto, observed the different classes and campaigned for a revolution of the working class against the capitalists. However, an alternative to extremist Communism would probably be democratic socialism which simply argues for the redistribution of government wealth amongst the poor. Such democratic socialists are Martin Luther King Jr., President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the famous author George Orwell who, in the 1930s and 1940s, wrote books such as Nineteen-Eighty-Four and Animal Farm to oppose the Stalinist Soviet Union. c my won is better