Book Review: A Black Radical Intellectual Hero Writes, And Scholars Rescue, A Victory-Tinged History

Walter Rodney’s notes of his 1970-1971 lectures have been shaped into a book by Robin D.G. Kelly, Jesse Benjamin and Vijay Prashad. In this book, the professor Walter Rodney and his Tanzanian students are studying the possible future of Africa by studying the past victories and mistakes of Europe, since Marxism was being tested across the African mainland and around the world.

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Neoliberalism & Toxic Identity Politics

By Tom Watts “Throughout the history of human knowledge, there have been two conceptions concerning the law of development of the universe, the metaphysical conception and the dialectical conception, which form two opposing world outlooks.” Mao Tse-tung, “On Contradiction” Every idea is stamped with the world view of a particular class and in this epoch,…

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What the F#*k is Socialism? A Conversation with and about the Party for Socialism and Liberation

We were joined for this edition of iMiXWHATiLiKE by Brian Becker and Eugene Puryear* of The Party for Socialism and Liberation for a conversation about their political organization and more broadly the ideas of socialism, communism and revolutionary political struggle.  Some of the questions addressed in this conversation include: What is socialism, communism and historical…

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