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The Human Race

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The story of the human race has been filled with many motifs that have been repeatedly woven throughout the tapestry of human history. Yet there is one theme of mankind that is constant in many societies and civilizations that many people have overlooked as one of the necessary keys to the growth of humanity. Oppression. Oppression of humans has been an almost constant characteristic in many civilizations in almost every part of the Western world and at almost any time period. But as abhorrent and as disgraceful as oppression is (and has been), oppression has played a beneficial role for the elite members of many societies. The benefits of oppression can be seen in the works of Marx, Mandela, Wollstonecraft and Colbert as the proletariats, Africans, women and non-wealthy Americans were all heavily suppressed by their societies’ elites through their blatant and centralized oppression as well as the more subtle controlled messaging that they used to gain and maintain power.
One of the most revolutionary and important socio-political books of all time is Marx’s, The Communist Manifesto. In this groundbreaking text, Marx talks about the historical struggle between the two main parts of society, “the bourgeoisie and the proletariats” (Marx 2). Since the bourgeoisie held all the power, the proletariats were completely at bourgeoisie’s mercy for the proletariats can only “live so long as they find work” (Marx 16). So the proletariats living day to day without any financial security

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