Walter Rodney

Es una redefinición del proceso global del desarrollo de las metrópolis capitalistas (Europa y Estados Unidos) y su estrecha dependencia del proceso de subdesarrollo de las periferias, y de África en particular. Entre las contribuciones de Rodney se pueden destacar: su ampliación del análisis de la totalidad; su análisis de la superestructura, particularmente del papel de la religión; su reordenamiento cronológico de la historia de la explotación; y su afirmación de que el capitalismo ha sido siempre europeo. Uno de los principales argumentos, a lo largo de la narrativa es que África desarrolló a Europa al mismo tiempo que Europa subdesarrollo a África. Poniéndose en manifiesto las políticas de poder y explotación económica que llevaron a África, al precario estado que se encuentra en lo social, económico y político a fines del siglo XX. Sin embargo, Rodney creía, que cada africano tiene la responsabilidad de comprender el sistema, (capitalista) y trabajar para su derrocamiento. In this new edition, Angela Davis offers a striking foreword to the book, exploring its lasting contributions to a revolutionary and feminist practice of anti-imperialism.

In this classic work published in the heady days of anti-colonial revolution, Groundings with My Brothers follows the global circulation of emancipatory ideas, from the black students of North America to the Rasta counterculture of Jamaica and beyond. The book is striking in its simultaneous ability to survey the wide and heterogeneous international context while remaining anchored in grassroots politics, as Rodney offers us first-hand accounts of mass movement organizing. Having inspired a generation of revolutionaries, this new edition will re-introduce the book to a new political landscape that it helped shape, with reflections from leading scholar-activists--Provided by publisher.

"In his short life, Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the foremost thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Wherever he was, Rodney was a lightning 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 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 broad 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."--Provided by publisher.

"Analyzes circumstances precipitating labor protests in mid-19th-century British Guiana and the consequences for political consciousness and activism"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Esme Rockett, also known as MC Ferocious, rocks her suburban Minnesota Christian high school with more than the hip-hop music she makes with best friends Marcy (DJ SheStorm) and Tess (The ConTessa) when she develops feelings for her co-MC, Rowie (MC Rohini).