Decolonial Marxism

Essays from the Pan-African Revolution

Walter Rodney, Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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English

Verso Books
05 October 2022

Colonialism & imperialism; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Social & political philosophy

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.

By: Walter Rodney
Foreword by: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Imprint: Verso Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm,
Weight: 303g
ISBN: 9781839764110
ISBN 10: 1839764112
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 05 October 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Walter Rodney was one of the leading thinkers and activists of anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed twentieth-century Jamaica’s most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People’s Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney was assassinated.

Reviews for Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution

If Walter Rodney's assassins were under the impression that they could arrest the flow of his ideas by destroying his body, they could have not been more wrong . In the context of the new resistance fo global capitalism, his captivating analysis resonates more than ever before. -- Angela Davis, author of Women, Race and Class Rodney's perspective is alive, dazzling with the potential of revolution. -- Vijay Prashad, author of The Poorer Nations and Director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research