Walter Rodney, born in Guyana on 22nd of march in 1942, Pan-African, Marxist intellectual who was assassinated by the Guyanese government in 1980 at 38 years old.
Rodney attended the University College of the West Indies in 1960 and was awarded a first class honors degree in History in 1963. He later earned a PhD in African History in 1966 at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, England, at the age of 24.
Rodney traveled extensively and became well-known as an activist, scholar, and formidable orator. He taught at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania from 1966-67 and 1969-1974, and in 1968 at his alma mater University of the West Indies.
On October 15th, 1968, the government of Jamaica declared Rodney a "persona non grata" and banned him from the country. Following his dismissal by the University of the West Indies, students and poor people in West Kingston protested, leading to the "Rodney Riots", which caused six deaths and millions of dollars in damages.
In 1972, Rodney published "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa". Historian Melissa Turner describes the work this way: "A brutal critique of long-standing and persistent exploitation of Africa by Western powers, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa remains a powerful, popular, and controversial work in which Rodney argued that the early period of African contact with Europe, including the slave trade, sowed the seeds for continued African economic underdevelopment and had dramatically negative social and political consequences as well. He argued that, while the roots of Africa’s ailments rested with intentional underdevelopment and exploitation under European capitalist and colonial systems, the only way for true liberation to take place was for Africans to become cognizant of their own complicity in this exploitation and to take back the power they gave up to the exploiters."
On June 13th, 1980, Rodney was killed in Georgetown, Guyana via a bomb given to him by Gregory Smith, a sergeant in the Guyana Defence Force, one month after returning Zimbabwe. In 2015, a "Commission of Inquiry" in Guyana that the country's then president, Linden Forbes Burnham, was complicit in his murder.
"If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be through revolutionary means."
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Had my first real emotionally charged, violently negative thoughts about liberals today. What is it about em that makes em such perfect wallbait?
I just can't handle the combination of smugness and inability to acknowledge reality, while they act like YOU are the bastard.
Said whilst doing some homophobic shit, as a cherry on top!
First time meme but without the question mark. What makes me feel good to deal with thst frustration is dealing with libs IRL where they are powerless. They can't Google shit they don't know about and then regurgitate like it's their argument, they can't edit and they don't have time to think or read your post over and over to comb for any tiny edge they can take. I advise all hexbears to get gud at being able to do lib response posts IRL. These are deeply unserious people who need to read your response and then look up how to be contrarian to whatever you say and copy and paste. Verbally they can't and are the most easy to befuddled morons out there because they have no clue what they're talking about and are usually just making shit up based on half remembered headlines of articles they didn't read and cultural vibes. This does require committing a good amount to memory but you'd be shocked how quick you can recall quotes and sources when you really try. Also usually people IRL are less of a cult for either the dems or gop, especially if you aren't American, but the libs we get are fucking cranks and normal people think they're weird nerds. The vast majority of people are political jellyfish who go with the flow and never consider these lines of thought ever and should be your targets, you can radicalize them by just pointing out how labor under capitalism do be exploitation and it's really easy math to show that and most people do understand it but don't consider it a ripoff. Dyed in the wool libs like you argue with online are the easiest people to absolutely embarrassing hopefully st work in front of the jellyfish crowd. They are fish in a barrel when they don't have infinite time to respond cause they have never learned anything.
Yeah, online liberals are such a waste of effort. I am going to be PPB'ing them as a matter of course now.
Make sure at least one person effortless and the normal pathetic reply happens etc. You don't need to make the effort post bit someone here needs to before the ppb, if you're on the mood or are well equipped with what you know to handle the effort post do so, if not sleepnsoundlt knowing others are gonna handle it.