Obafemi Seyi Peter

MISERY, THE ALIENATED CLASS AND THE NIGERIAN MONIED DEMOCRACY

The masses can be controlled if they are made to cry, laugh, be angry or depressed”. The social instrumentation of the elite to guile the masses for power control has been interpreted by severalhundred elitist theorists. Whilst most have looked at the masses as an independent variable that conditions the power elite strategies, the paper argues that the masses is essentially a dependent variable that falls prey of elite construction and constriction. This is made possible as the masses i...