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Views of Chinua Achebe and Karl Marx
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Karl Marx believed that history could be defined as class struggle. In any period of time a dominant class exploits a weaker class. Marx defines a dominant class as one who owns or controls the means of production. The weaker class consists of those who don’t. Marxist Theory can also be applied to Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in two ways, one from inside the story, and the other from outside.
It would be inaccurate to claim that the Igbo society of Things Fall Apart is no different from a western society in its representation of capitalism. But that’s because the Igbo culture does not represent capitalism as we may think of it. There are no factories in turn-of-the-century Africa, but there are similarities between a capitali
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