PROLETARIAT,SLAVE,SERF AND THE HANDICRAFT

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THE PROLETARIAT, SLAVE, SERF AND THE HANDICRAFT Over time in the history of modern world man has walked through various stages of life. At every given stage of life, society was equally at a distinct economic stage. In deed, the history of man proper covers a span of about forty thousand years (Eaton, 1966:10).The primitive man was a savage, he lived in savagery. The spears and the hunting trap were his first instruments for hunting down his preys. He must have felt cold, thus with fire he warmed himself and cooked his food. As time past or went on, he learnt how to make artificial dwelling places to replace his previous dwelling place -the caves and the rocks. It is necessary to ...

... as a commodity which of course is determined by market forces. It may come as a surprise though, but let it be known that inspite of the single fact that the proletariats of advanced western societies have their conditions ameliorated; the proletariats of developing societies, Africa in particular are scorned at, despised and subjugated. If there conditions are not improved upon, I mean if this excessive exploitation and class differentiation continues and is not checked, what Engels said may come to pass: "One fine day all the workers in a country or even may be through out the world will stop work and force the wealthy classes in at most four weeks either to give in or attack the workers,

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