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Wir freuen uns schon sehr euch , auf der Leipziger Buchmesse zu treffen 💓 Wir stehen mit der @rosaluxstiftung
in Halle 5, Stand K141. Unten der Timetable für unsere Talks, Forum Sachbuch (Halle 5, E700): Fr 14:30 Bafta Sarbo zu #WalterRodney + 15:00 Vincent Streichhahn zu »Feministische Internationale« / Sa 12:30 Michael Hewener zu #JohannesAgnoli. Oder hier: leipziger-buchmesse.de/ausstel

„Seine Radikalität ist ein Konter zu Tendenzen auch im ‚progressiven‘ Mainstream, die ‚Unterentwicklung‘ Afrikas durch den Kolonialismus zuzugestehen, aber von der aktuellen Struktur des globalen Kapitalismus abzukoppeln.“ — @rheinze zu #WalterRodney, marxistischer Historiker, Aktivist und #BlackPower-Vordenker, der 1980 mit nur 38 Jahren durch einen Sprengstoffanschlag der guyanischen Armee getötet wurde. Rodneys Schriften aus der panafrikanischen Revolution entdecken: dietzberlin.de/dekolonialer-ma

"We were told that violence in itself is evil, and that, whatever the cause, it is unjustified morally. By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master? By what standards can we equate the violence of Blacks who have been oppressed, suppressed, depressed and repressed for four centuries with the violence of white fascists? Violence aimed at the recovery of human dignity and at equality cannot be judged by the same yardstick as violence aimed at maintenance of discrimination and oppression."

- Walter Rodney, "The Groundings with My Brothers"

There’s an amazing effect that happens when reading #WalterRodney in the current moment, and that is that you suddenly realise he talked about many issues in a way that lots of very current academic works are. He touches on environmental justice, colonial economies, groundings and racism and his theses have been taken up in the last years by people who don’t even cite him.

Angela Davis sagte: „Im Hinblick auf den sich neu formierenden Widerstand gegen den globalen Kapitalismus ist seine fesselnde Analyse aktueller denn je.“ Die Rede ist von: #WalterRodney, bril­lanter Theoretiker, Aktivist und Black Power-Vordenker, der 1980 ermordet wurde. Seine Ideen waren nicht aufzuhalten. Neu + radikal: »Dekolonialer Marxismus«, die bisher auf Deutsch unveröffentlichte Sammlung seiner Schriften zur panafrikanischen Revolution | dietzberlin.de/produkt/dekolon

It's #BlackHistoryMonth, and in 2024 I'm reflecting on the fact that although I've known about Walter Rodney and his seminal work "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" for years, it wasn't until I started reading it last year that I found out that Rodney was assassinated by his own Guyanese government in a car bombing. He was 38.

I'm obligated to point out to fellow white people, in case you missed it, the trend of white people lionizing a heroic Black person in a show of solidarity while studiously ignoring the vicious violence enacted against that person by the powers that be.

Also, Rodney was banned from Jamaica and from his teaching position at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica. This caused protests that escalated to riots in Kingston in 1968. Part of the wave of protests that swept the world from that year to the next.

Anyway, please read Rodney.
And/or about Rodney. web.archive.org/web/2004110506
#books #history #histodons #WalterRodney #Guyana #CaribbeanHistory #PanAfrican #Marxism @histodons