Essays on Political Activists

Born in St Ann’s Bay, Jamaica in 1887, Marcus Garvey grew to be the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement and Conservation Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) after travelling many times and seeing first-hand how “Negroes lived, politically and otherwise”. Garvey led one of,...

Black Nationalism is defined as a type of ‘group of militant blacks who advocate separatism from the whites and the formation of self-governing black communities.’ In the tradition of radicalism, Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey advocates for political and social reform for descendants of the...

Rupert Lewis was born February 24th, 1947 in Jamaica. He is a renowned author and Professor Emeritus of Political Thought at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica. He is a proud public educator on the work of Marcus Garvey and the Garvey...

Garveyism was a movement way ahead of its time. Jamaican born, Marcus Garvey was responsible for the American Black Nationalist and Pan Africanism Movement in the 1920s. Garvey’s mother Sarah Jane Richardson was a great influencer in Garvey’s young life, she wanted more for him...

Introduction Every generation is granted its share of leaders; those empowered to empower others and motivated to establish a better world for generations to come. Marcus Garvey was one of those people. He was an activist, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator of unity amongst black people....

The biography of Marcus Garvey by Rupert Lewis, gives account of his humble origins and the influences and developments which transported him from the state of a young unworldly schoolboy in colonial Jamaica to an international icon in the movement for black empowerment. Rupert Lewis...

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Junior was an exceptional writer, advocate for black rights and political activist during his time on earth. Most of his noteworthy actions were captured by that of Rupert Lewis, a retired professor and former teacher of political thought at the University of...

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. born on the 17th of August in 1887 was born to a tolerably prosperous Afro-Jamaican family in Saint Ann’s Bay, Colony of Jamaica and apprenticed into the print exchange as a young person. Garvey was a Jamaican political dissident, distributor, speaker,...

The main elements of Weber’s ideal model of bureaucracy included division of labour, hierarchy, and selection of staff based on technical competence. It provided for officials to be appointed, not elected, fixed salaries and promotions based on seniority of service. Weber suggested a model for...

The model of bureaucratic administration dates back to the ancient civilizations of Egypt to China, India and Rome. It is known for its keen interest in official organization and its insistence on the rules, official methods and purely procedural aspects. But it was developed in...

A good point of departure in exploring the concept of social change is the fact that no human society anywhere has ever been or can be static. It is also true that social change is hard to predict. This is mainly because the factors that...

Karl Marx was very insistent when it came down to explanation of the nature of society. That is to say, he claimed that capitalism created a hostile, evil environment where people had no choice but to trade their souls for survival. Of course, Marx never...

Introduction An economist, political theorist and philosopher born in Germany, Karl Marx wrote some of the most revolutionary philosophical material ever generated. Indeed, during his lifetime, his writing was so relevant to the human situation that he was expelled from his homeland. But this event...

Karl Marx was one of the founders of the founders of sociology and his ideas about society are still very much relevant to this day. Marx believed that, as societies grew, people began to grow distant in economic class due to their place in the...

In this paper I argue the role of production within community using both Tocqueville and Marx’s theories. Tocqueville speaks about voluntary association being positive for community whereas Marx, speaks about the forced labour and slavery. Tocqueville also discusses how voluntary labour aids at one’s sense...

Life generally, never works out the way we want it. Throughout our lives we are in a constant battle with the world and our surroundings. It is up to the person as an individual to decide what they want for themselves. In the novel I...

Power has historically taken on different meanings and functions. For Max Weber, power is merely instrumental, whereas Hannah Arendt sees it as communicative, and Michel Foucault as strategic. Although power is traditionally defined as essentially repressive and negative, I will argue along the lines of...

Karl Marx examined division of labor in society. “By 1844, Marx had come to the conclusion that the whole world of history is nothing but the creation of man by human labor” (lecture notes). Marx specifies that labor had gone through many changes in history....

Peace What is Peace? Peace is the generalization of freedom; the freedom from war, violence and disturbance. The act of escaping is defined by peace and there are many different views and aspects. Peace is a factor of the world that civilians have wanted for...