Carole Boyce Davies, the author if this article, reflects on the life of the black communists, activists and intellectuals in this article. The author further reflects on the intertwined trans-Atlantic histories of leftist politics and the feminism and the internationalism that took place in the twentieth century. Claudia Jones, one of the activists mentioned, is highly associated with philosophies of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. She is remembered for her political contribution to the Caribbean community in Britain. Claudia Jones is depicted as a communist and a feminist in all the metaphors that she is prone to using. In her works, Claudia Jones is inclined to metaphors and theories of prominent theorist Karl Marx. She greatly utilizes the Marx’s theories and ideologies such that, she is referred to as the ‘left of Karl Marx’.
Some of the activities that display Claudia as a womanist activist are the manners in which she had volunteered to serve the society and be an activist; her intentions were to attain her goals through the Marxism theories of Karl Marx. She engaged in distinct anti-imperialist politics, which contributed to her being positioned as the ‘left of Karl Marx’. Her commitment to the society is displayed by the work done by Buzz Johnson where he remembers her as the mother of activism and Marxism. The author asserts that the politics of Claudia and her activities are a thing that someone cannot avoid to marvel about.
Another aspect that makes Claudia fit well within the description of Karl Marx is the fact that once she left high school she joined menial jobs and started engaging in activities that were intended to redeem women. In addition, she got involved in activities that were of political nature and ...
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...as much determined that not even a deportation or imprisonment could not make her loose her focus. She is so much liked by the society since whenever she formed a group, she always found members to work with and help her attain the intended mission. Another thing about her is that she was much intertwined with Karl Marx’s Marxism theories such that, they had been inscribed on her tombstone making those who went to pay homage to her feel that they were in touch with Karl Marx.
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It is believed by the author that the feminist movement in many ways parallels the struggles faced by African Americans in the US during the same time period. The authors will offer ideas on where the pro...
The socialist movement criticized the exploitation of workers under capitalism. The feminist movement, lead by middle-class women, criticized the exploitation of women. Each movement on its own ignored the fundamental objective of the other. Yet, out of these two movements emerged socialist feminists like Agnes Smedley, who were determined to bring each movement together and give birth to a new vision that would shed light on the dual oppression of the working-class women. Agnes Smedley, in Daughter of Earth, shows this dual oppression by exposing the characteristics of capitalism and those of the male-dominated society.
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Karl Marx noted that society was highly stratified in that most of the individuals in society, those who worked the hardest, were also the ones who received the least from the benefits of their labor. In reaction to this observation, Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto where he described a new society, a more perfect society, a communist society. Marx envisioned a society, in which all property is held in common, that is a society in which one individual did not receive more than another, but in which all individuals shared in the benefits of collective labor (Marx #11, p. 262). In order to accomplish such a task Marx needed to find a relationship between the individual and society that accounted for social change. For Marx such relationship was from the historical mode of production, through the exploits of wage labor, and thus the individual’s relationship to the mode of production (Marx #11, p. 256).
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