FRANK UKONGA LECTURE 37: THE
HISTORICAL AND DIALECTICAL IMPERATIVES OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AS A PANACEA TO
GLOBAL IDEOLOGICAL AND POLIT- ECONOMIC RESTIVENESS-
Social Democracy crests on the
pillars of the transformation of Hegelian philosophy by His Preeminence plenipotentiary
Karl Marx into a scientific thesis of Marxism base on the ideals of a number of
historical and dialectical premises of the followings;
A] Human beings determine
consciousness; which bears historical and dialectical relations to the
production relations of each society at varies times of social classifications.
In this context Marxism crest on the pillars of a posteriori knowledge,
exonerating determinism and transcendental phenomenology of human ontology as
mundane argumentum, as untenable and unacceptable as the causality of creation
and existence on a global basis. In this context, despite some missing link to the evolutionary theory of the Homo sapiens has become widely accepted as a
philosophical standard practice as truth self-evident and scientific.
Researchers and students of physical
and cultural anthropology would bear me witness that materialistic view of
human ontology is not native to Karl Marx as his forerunners of medieval
philosophy of Anahimenes, Pythagoras and
Anahimenda have been able to lay a foundation for the future development of the
theory in simile with the Nikolai Gogol’s personage in his celebrated book of’
Pikavaya Dama’- [Russian]-Queen of Spade’[English]where Shakalisky and Shaman
youth to the marrow were at daggers drawn to win the love of an octogenarian
who could die today or tomorrow so that they can steal the secrets of the
Spades which is the source of everlasting wealth and fame to their own streams
of consciousness. Shaman was presented as another Napoleon which bears
reminiscences to the general milieu of that era even before the emergence of
the true Napoleons that conquered the world in 100 days- the idea had already been in the air so to
say.
Social beings determining consciousness
engage in activities of production that generate enterprise and social
relations comes into being and begins to develop as the causality of human
civilization on a global basis. This invigorates production relations in the
aspects of the relation between production and the productive forces of nature. Of
course the aspects of capital, land, labor, and entrepreneurship comes to the
fore as factors of production. The crux of the matter begins to rear its head
as production becomes more complex; so also is the production relations which
historically has produced a hierarchical social order of primeval stages of the
early man, the era of slavery, the era of feudalism which became moribund giving way to the contemporary era of capitalism which also is becoming moribund to give way to
socialism.
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In that order of mutantis mutandis
the historical and dialectical view of human history took shape till today as
scientific,; presentable and acceptable to all men of goodwill the world over.
B) Consequently according to the
Marxist laws of Negation of De-Negation the era of Capitalism and cooperate and
institutional greed has become moribund on a universal basis and it is continuous
existence is the causality of the current global economic recession and this is
likely to remain with us until something drastic is done to reverse the trend.
Research has indicated that more than 80% of the world total wealth in the
western hemisphere and Africa is being controlled by less than 10% of the
population leaving the rest 90% of the population to poverty, hunger,
frustration, shame, death, and misery. Some peoples are born into this class of
rich and supper rich while many others are born into the poor class without
choice but to remain poor in this class forever,
C) Class Struggle of the 21 century:
The 21 century is bedeviled with the new class struggles between the have and
have not and that will be the war that will engulf all the years of the 21st
century mankind as the gap between the rich and the poor is becoming more
abrasive and in many cases will snowball into civil wars towards the middle
years of the 21st century except something is done to redistribute
wealth through legislative means and spread opportunities to the low income
earners.
d) Redundancies/ Joblessness,
homelessness, hunger, and Misery: This is a clarion warning to all the workers
of the world that except you take the bull by its horns the cases of
joblessness that has become acute on a global basis, the causes of hunger,
misery homelessness will grow more acute as we advance into the 21st Century and it is time all workers state advocating for social order and
production relations of participatory capitalism as a step into true social
democratic ideals.
e)Social Democracy pride itself on
the inalienable adamantine principles of equality of all citizen and the
empowerment of all citizens of a polity to qualitative and free education at
all levels, to jobs at all levels, to housing, good health, social security and
much more. Social democracy is committed to agricultural ad industrial
revolution, abhor corruption, abhor looting of the state and public treasuries and
abhor all the present ills of capitalism and in place furnace out a marshal
plan to reinvent the human being of a social democratic polity.
Conclusion: Once more I wish all the
workers of Nigeria, Africa, and the entire world a happy workers day and
earnestly solicit their support to make this world a better place for all.
Sign
Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga
Chairman Social Democratic Party of
Edo State of Nigeria-SDP/Presidential Aspirant 2015
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