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Question A: Define the following concepts. Make sure you identify the author of each concept and explain how these concepts are related to or different from each other.
- Commodity Fetishism viz. Reification of Social Relations.
- Alienation viz. Anomie
- Exploitation viz Expropriation
- Use Value vis Exchange Value
- Residential Schools viz the 60s-Scoop
- Orientalism viz. Eurocentrism
- Assabiyyah viz Mechanical Solidarity
- Live Labour viz Dead Labour
- Forces of Production viz Relations of Production
- Labour viz wage-labour
Question B. Rosa Luxemburg's theory of capitalist expansion differs from that explained by Marx in some major respects. Luxemburg disagrees with Marx's perception of the so-called Primitive Accumulation. Identify each scholar's definition of the so-called primitive accumulation. What is the difference between the two perspectives? What does Luxemburg refer to this process (what does she call it), and why? Considering the multiple examples provided by Rosa Luxemburg, please choose one example or provide your own example.
Question C. The relatively recent discovery of the remains of 215 indigenous children from Kamloops residential school, together with the 60s scoop, and the residential schools before that, along with the missing and murders of thousands of indigenous women and girls, are all but an integral part of the settler-colonial policies of elimination, erasure or genocide used by the Canadian state against the indigenous peoples. Explain some of the different forms/mechanisms of genocide committed by the Canadian state against indigenous peoples! What are the ramifications of such policies on the aboriginal/indigenous peoples. Do you think Canada is doing enough to alleviate the suffering of our indigenous population? Yes/No? Why?
P.S. You can find detailed data on the Canadian policies on the indigenous people in the MMIWG Report #https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report.
Question D. Decolonization is the veritable creation of new men. But this creation owes nothing of its legitimacy to any supernatural power; the "thing" which has been colonized, becomes man during the same process by which it frees itself