Devil on the Cross

The cross, the instrument on which the Devil is executed and from which he is afterwards spared, is an intensely symbolic image corresponding to the deficient and faulty procedure of decolonization towards self-rule and autonomy. While workers might think they have gained opportunity by taking bold and revolutionary action, the Devil resurges—as did Christ, according by Christian religious philosophy—by finding incarnation in the structures of neoimperialism and neocolonialism. Moreover, the way in the Devil both exits and comes back to the world is dependent here on the Christian symbol of the cross—an indictment of the role that religion can play in upholding both white supremacist ideologies and a social caste system based on wealth and its alleged correlation with holiness.