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Walter Rodney was assassinated on this day in 1980, at the age of 38. But his legacy continues to live on.
We're proud to be publishing a new edition of his seminal work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, out September 29th.
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"We all, since the day we are born, carry within us the genes of the end of the world."
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As riveting as the turned down pages make it look 😍🤩🔥✨
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In this essay, originally published by Race Today in 1983, C.L.R. James discusses Walter Rodney's work in relation to the revolutionary seizure of power.
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“If Walter Rodney’s assassins were under the impression that they could arrest the flow of his ideas by destroying his body, they could not have been more wrong.”
- Angela Davis
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“The notion of patriotism must be understood in a class context—one can be patriotic in defense of a capitalist state or... a workers’ state. These are two different things, for when a worker is patriotic in a capitalist state he is just serving his own oppressor.” Walter Rodney
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Guyanese Marxist, historian and revolutionary leader, Walter Rodney, was assassinated on June 13, 1980. Known for his book, "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa," Rodney taught in Tanzania and Jamaica before returning to Guyana to form the Working Peoples' Alliance. #OTD #Guyana
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Marx wrote in the Grundrisse: “Almost all manufactures, to be successful, must now be carried out extensively and with a great capital; small masters with small capitals have only little chance of success…
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Interviewed by @tengely_evans for @socialistworker, about my book @VersoBooks
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"Theory of Immediate World Revolution drew on something very serious: it took the nuclear specter at face value. What can we do when we’re suffocated by the throat? The answer remains clear and unchanged: anything."
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Absolutely crucial book.
Jun 11
We're proud to announce a new edition of Walter Rodney's seminal work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - out September 29th.
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We're proud to announce a new edition of Walter Rodney's seminal work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - out September 29th.
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Jun 12
Across the world, millions of workers exhaust themselves in billions of hours of free labour.
But what if wage theft isn’t a bug but a feature of capitalism itself?
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We're proud to announce a new edition of Walter Rodney's seminal work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - out September 29th.
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"What can we do when we’re suffocated by the throat? The answer remains clear and unchanged: anything."
Marcel Mariën on Theory of Immediate World Revolution, out in English for the first time this September - preorder now and save 30%
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Your boss is probably stealing from you.
If you have ever had to work unpaid overtime, your boss is committing wage theft. (1/4)
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If you have ever been paid less than the minimum wage, your boss is committing wage theft. (3/4)
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In Unpaid: The Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft, @MattColeWorks upends conventional wisdom about how we value work, exposing wage theft as one of capitalism’s enduring open secrets.
Out now!
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