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Privatization Rhetorical Analysis

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In December 1999, the democratically elected government of president olusegun Obasanjo picked interest on privatization exercise and gave it a boost by establishing the national council on privatization (N C P) with the vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as chairman. The council is empowered among other things ;  To determine the political economic and social objective of the privatization commercialization programme.  Identification of enterprise to be privatized or commercialized.  Approve guidelines and criteria for valuation of public enterprise marked out for privatization including choice of strategies investors.  Approved the price for shores or asset of the public enterprises to be offered for sale.  Determine the …show more content…

The conflict is a product of the contradictions inherent in the mode of production in which the class that “has” dominates the class that does “not have”. Marx borrowed the idea of dialectics from Hegel, a German Philosopher. According to Hegel, the universe is the product of the absolute spirit. The absolute spirit moves the world and human actions through the process of dialectics which is an interaction between thesis and anti-thesis leading to synthesis. The synthesis has both the thesis and the anti-thesis. The growth in the human society is the product of the absolute spirit moving towards perfection and freedom. For Marx, matter and not idea (absolute spirit) is responsible for the growth and movement in the world. Conflict is due to the interaction between two classes on the quest for better material condition. "Panta cwrei, oudei menei." "Everything flows and nothing stays." (Heraclitus) Dialectics is a method of thinking and interpreting the world of both nature and society. It is a way of looking at the universe, which sets out from the axiom that everything is in a constant state of change and flux. But not only that. Dialectics explains that …show more content…

The motive force of scientific investigation is the desire to obtain a rational insight into this bewildering labyrinth, to understand it in order to conquer it. We look for laws which can separate the general from the particular, the accidental from the necessary, and enable us to understand the forces that give rise to the phenomena which confront us. According to Marx (1968) historical events are the result of a continuous economic struggle between different classes of groups in a society and the struggle is a conflict between ‘’the mode of production and ‘’the relations of production’’. The mode of production conditions the social, political and intellect life processes in general. The mode of production refers... to the way in which the means of product were owned and the social relations between men which resulted from their connections with the process of production. It also emphasizes ‘’the importance of domination, exploitation, struggles and control between classes in any mode of production ‘’ (Aina 1986:4) Government and the State are instruments used to protect and promote the interests of those in control under capitalism – bourgeoi (Dyke, 1969:168). The theory also emphasizes that the hierarchical structural of the society emanate from the established ways of organizing

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