Polecon 45 SAQ reading response

Choose any primary source and explain what it says about polecon: Reading from Cabral — the weapon of theory

this reading in class from Cabral, a 20th century nationalist leader of the farina party during the independence of Guine and Cape Verde, wrote the weapons of theory during a point in African colonial imperialism to further anti-colonial theory. He claimed the best way to rid the world of imperialism is to take arms and fight to over turn a class-based product of history. He argues that the development of class or who owns what results from who has control of transportation and communication and exclude certain unreachable groups. this ready says polecon is larger a product of class and thus who owns land, power more influence which is the bread and butter of imperialism.

 In his classic book imagined communities benedict anderson argues that nationalism is fundamentally tied to language and literature, in this class we have read many nationalists including simon bolivar, belinsky, sun yat sen, and mohandas gandhi please choose at least one of those texts and use it to argue whether or not you thing Anderson is correct

Anderson who works imagined communities in the 20th century illustrates how nationalism is largely forawraeded by language and literature, a sentiment which is supported by Ghandi in Indian home rule and Sun Yat Sen in the fundamental son National reconstruction. Ghandi is a revolution and anti-colonial leader who uses nationalism to unite against colonial power. in Indian Home Rule, ghandi speaks on how Indian leaders travel on foot and historically learned each other languages without aloofness of the nation. therefore even with land barriers, there was a united nationality established through these shared conversations. Sun eat sen is a Chinese statesman who wrote the Fundamentals of National Reconstruction and argues democracy and nationalism are preserved ni books which create revolution gain and again. acting in accordance of the people, defines who the ‘people’ are.

Franz fanon, amilcar cabral, and Andre gunder frank all wrote key texts in anti-colonial theory. Choose at least one of them and use it to explain how colonization changed the global political economy. To change the political economy as the colonized country led to a revolution and greater individuals gain independence and say which allows for a wider breadth of people in charge and holding onto rights to get stuff

Cabral and Frank were two anti-colonial writers who changed political economy through their process in forwarding a revolution which democratized independence and allowed for a wider breadth of people to control who owns what. Cabral in the 20th century weapon of theory as an African anti-colonial leaders talks of colonial and Neo-colonial class struggles, including how decolonization is based on the economic capacity of the ruling class and means revolutionaries can die for a class or become the borugisuoie. this creates nationalist sentiment. Frank was as 20th century German sociology who analyzed poverty and wealth. he speaks of historical colonial enterprises such as Chile who continues to underdeveloped, he creates a dependency theory. here this shows that colonization leads to dependence and exploitation. capitalism ay it promotes modernity but under development is promoted by this which leads to the hypthesis w/o they will be better.

Many of the authors we have read use the idea of freedom but many of them have different idas of what it means. Please choose at least two authors and compare and contrast their ideas of freedom.

Ghandi ad roussoe have similar ideas of freedom as both talk about the desire to support the wellbeing and liberty of individuals and return to a state of nature, but in roussoue this is escape from self governance and for ghandi its escape from colonialism. Both ghandi in Indian home Rule 20th and Roussoue on Discourse of inequality 18th take similar points of view on civil society. roussoeu critiques civil society and what comes with it such as property, ownership and class. it is the same modrnizised approach to life that ghandi resents as well therefore. however both are different, for ghandi seeks freedom from the imperial ienlgish as an inslaved and the tyranny of being and obeying a govt blindly. roussoue claims we simply cannot go back and return to simpler times but we can correct while ghandi is pushing for this movement back fully