Walter Rodney’s Russian Revolution

With Robin D.G. Kelley, Vijay Prashad, and Christina Heatherton. At Verso Books in Brooklyn, May 24, 2018.
Walter Rodney’s “The Russian Revolution” is available from Verso Books: www.versobooks.com/products/6...
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In his short life, Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the foremost thinkers and activists of the anti colonial revolution, leading movements in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean, Wherever he was, Rodney was a lighting rod for working-class Black Power organizing. His deportation sparked Jamaica’s Rodney Riots in 1968, and his scholarship trained a generation how to approach politics on an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding the Working People’s Alliance in Guyana, the thirty-eight-year-old Rodney was assassinated.
Walter Rodney’s “The Russian Revolution” collects surviving texts from a series of lectures he delivered at the University of Dar Es Salaam, an intellectual hub of the independent Third World. It had been his intention to work these into a book, a goal completed posthumously with the editorial aid of Robin D.G. Kelley and Jesse Benjamin. Moving across the historiography of the long Russian Revolution with clarity and insight, Rodney transcends the ideological fault lines of the Cold War. Surveying a board range of subjects-the Narodniks, social democracy, the October Revolution, civil war, and the challenges of Stalinism-Rodney articulates a distinct viewpoint from the Third World, one that grounds revolutionary theory and history with the people in motion.

[@kylefitzgerald4616]

Definitely want to get my paws on this book.

[@georgesais8687]

Hey, Vijay what a pleasant surprise! I knew nothing about Walter Rodnay. You know, I asked a couple of old people from England or Britain; whatever, here in Sydney, Australia about the education they received about the British Empire, especially in Afganistan and they had no idea! Like Australians they have no idea about the opeum wars in China. And yes I heard the same words used about the Vietnamese, Chinese, Africans and Indians. The education is just not right. Look at old Biden calling leaders killers and thugs. That's the education we all got, the white hats versus the black hats.

[@omalone1169]

1:25:00 who tried?

[@patrickcheah8682]

1²11 9:26 g

[@baruasafi5880]

Now I appreciate why people of Tanzania are more focussed and knowledgeable about their position as compared to the people of Kenya. Materialism is eating into the veins of Kenya voraciously especially in the leadership which is killing kenya.

[@omalone1169]

Come again?

[@justatypicalguy4417]

@@omalone1169 leaders in Kenya are eating people and biting at the veins

[@SJO897]

Very similar to Nigeria. My peoples government are chastened to America and American and European ideologies

[@javi2567]

✊

[@calllllllllllllllolol]

44:13
18:49

[@omalone1169]

1:28:00 mention afrocentrism

[@qthe6thman]

Real commie hours

[@shantim8249]

And your point?

[@debralegorreta1375]

Brilliant deduction q.
How did you figure it out?
Where did you acquire the analytical framework to be able to analyze the situation and reach this illuminating conclusion? The Dollar Store?

[@carlroberts4963]

He.was.killed.by.you.know.cia

[@comradehoney5655]

"Historical materialism has outlived its usefulness, dialectical thinking has not" Robin Kelley @ 51:35

[@mharm1017]

Yeah, that gravity thing is all played out. And photosynthesis? Done.

[@Coalwarrior2012]

@@mharm1017 Lol...

[@OSNLebuna]

That's not what he said lol. It's useful still, but you shouldn't relegate the metaphysical to a lower level *