Decolonial Marxism : essays from the Pan-African revolution

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Decolonial Marxism : essays from the Pan-African revolution

Walter Rodney ; edited by Asha Rodney ... [et al.] ; [foreword by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o]

Verso, 2022

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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. Decolonial Marxism records such a life by collecting previously unbound essays written during the world-turning days of Black revolution. 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.

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Editorial Note Introduction Part 1: Marxist Theory and Mass Action 1. A Brief Tribute to Amilcar Cabral 2. Masses in Action 3. Marxism and African Liberation 4. Marxism as a Third World Ideology 5. Labour as a Conceptual Framework for Pan-African Studies 6. The Angolan Question Part 2: Development and Underdevelopment 7. The Historical Roots of African Underdevelopment 8. Problems of Third World Development 9. Slavery and Underdevelopment Part 3: Their Pedagogy and Ours 10. The British Colonialist School of African Historiography and the Question of African Independence 11. Education in Colonial Africa 12. Education in Africa and Contemporary Tanzania Part 4: Building Socialism 13. Tanzanian Ujamaa and Scientific Socialism 14. Class Contradictions in Tanzania 15. Transition 16. Decolonization

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