Decolonial Marxism, Walter Rodney
Decolonial Marxism, Walter Rodney
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Decolonial Marxism
Essays from the Pan-African Revolution

Author: Walter Rodney

Narrator: Terrence Kidd

Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/02/2022


Synopsis

A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of Black Power, Ujamaa Villages, and the everyday people who put an end to a colonial era

Early in life, Walter Rodney became a major revolutionary figure in a dizzying range of locales that traversed the breadth of the Black diaspora: in North America and Europe, in the Caribbean, and on the African continent. He was not only a witness of a Pan-African and socialist internationalism; in his efforts to build mass organizations, catalyze rebellious ferment, and theorize an anti-colonial path to self-emancipation, he can be counted among its prime authors.

In drawing together pages where he elaborates on the nexus of race and class, offers his reflections on radical pedagogy, outlines programs for newly independent nation-states, considers the challenges of anti-colonial historiography, and produces balance sheets for a dozen wars for national liberation, this volume captures something of the range and power of Rodney's output. But it also demonstrates the unbending consistency that unites his life and work: the ongoing reinvention of living conception of Marxism, and a respect for the still untapped potential of mass self-rule.

About Walter Rodney

Walter Rodney is recognized as one of the Caribbean's most brilliant minds. Rodney attended Queens College, in Guyana, and graduated first in his class in 1960. He attended UWI Mona Campus in Jamaica, and graduated with 1st class honors in History in 1963. Rodney then attended the School of Oriental and African Studies in London where he received his PhD with honors in African History.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Zach on November 13, 2022

The assembly of topics here is stunning - he starts with a justification for talking about Marxism and Scientific Socialism in Africa, then moves on to the effects of slavery and colonialism on the continent. He narrows in on Tanzania in particular to assess the formation of class relations and the......more

Goodreads review by Talia on February 28, 2024

he has done it again! such clear and digestible analysis. rodney is prob one of my fav historians to read, witty yet scathing......more

Goodreads review by Tanroop on January 30, 2023

As always with Rodney, this is refreshingly clear and radical. As always with Rodney's posthumous works, because of his murder at the hands of the Guyanese state, it cannot but feel unfinished, in a sense. They were the lectures, speeches, works-in-progress of a great guerrilla intellectual, cut dow......more

Goodreads review by Jordan on January 01, 2023

Decolonial Marxism is timeless. The lessons that Rodney deciphers from studying colonial history and struggles for decolonization in the Caribbean and in Africa ring just as true today as they did way back when. Though many of the projects Rodney praises and critiques in this book (socialist Mozambi......more

Goodreads review by Dan on May 15, 2023

Rodney is, as always, essential reading for the modern Marxist. Much like Amilcar Cabral, his ability to apply a historical materialist analysis to the post colonial states in Africa with a ruthlessly critical eye is incredible. His analysis of Tanzania in particular stands as a great example for re......more