The above ideas are based on Afrikan conceptions, which were totally alien to Marx. His views on private property, class antagonism, and alienation, were concepts germane to Western culture and history but irrelevant to the majority of the world’s cultures. For Marx, similar to the Afrikan concept, the human being was malleable, but with Marx that development was not as guided and definitive as in the Afrikan case, where initiations and various rites of passage are employed. Also, his concept involved one aspect of the self apprehending the other. Thus, there still existed an antagonism within the self, and this is where Marx and Afrikan thought further diverge. Without society establishing cultural institutions that serve to guide human development, we are left with a society that through happenstance, wishes to develop human being but will instead produce overgrown children—automatons, to be exact. You cannot build a high culture with automatons. Marx believes he can build a Socialist society with automatons—it can never happen. Study Kemet and its concept of Maat, then Rome and its concept of imperium—one society was composed of human beings, the other, automatons. One society was based on communalism, the other on slavery.
Western apologists and sympathizers will introduce a Marxian class analysis to explain Western imperialist behavior, contending that the European privileged classes were the culprits and that other European social classes were also victimized. This is true; however, the same worldview and dissociated culture that created the European ruling class produced the same mentality among its masses. The difference is the masses were never afforded the opportunity or lacked the means to execute their wills, but if given the chance they would have acted identically. Thus, it is not a question of class but one of opportunity. Eventually the fruit of “overseas exploitation” benefitted the various social classes of Europe as they all experienced a rise in the standard of living and life expectancy. Europeans bare a collective responsibility and continue to this day to benefit from White supremacy.
As a footnote, if capitalism were truly the culprit, then why were the Romans, the Greeks, the Assyrians, the Aryans, and so many other non-capitalist societies, so despicable? They too were driven by a profit motive, a materialistic worldview, where self-interest is the highest human value. Why did the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China fail in their experiments with Marxism/Socialism? It’s not the “ism,” it’s the worldview that matters. Even with the demise of Capitalism, if the new system that replaces it is based on the same worldview, then we will be left with a "new world" that is just as contemptible as the present one.
And now it is time for my Afrocentricity to come to the forefront. From an Afrikan-centered viewpoint, Western civilization lacks culture; it does not produce human beings. By its own admission, the West views society as an amalgam of highly developed animals competing for goods and services. In terms of culture, two definitions for it exist in the West: the sum total of all societal activities, and the values and mannerisms of the ruling class. Further, there are notions like evolution, survival of the fittest, and progress that each accounts for human development and growth, but none of these approaches the Afrikan conception, which places human consciousness and the integration of the person at the center of human development. Consequently, our thinking cannot be based on Marxism, Shariah law, Judaic law, Roman law, or anyone else’s system of thought. We must return to the science of the soul, formulating cosmologies based on imagination, intuition, reason, and empirical information, and validation through not only mechanical technologies but also through the astral body (the double). The self-order must again be the basis of the world order and we must see the world order in the self. The deities, ancestors, divination, and sacrifice must be reincorporated into life’s experiences. This is our way forward. Not Marxism.