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.”
Walter Rodney
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Decolonial Marxism Essays From The Pan African Revolution
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Thinking about how in Star Wars and virtually every sci-fi setting I can think of, planets are never more than just “one place” each. One city, one forest, one town, one military base. But most importantly, one biome. Planets are really, really large and the only inhabitable planet we know of has many different biomes! If we’re talking about scale alone, you could reasonably have every event that happens in Star Wars take place in different spots on the same planet. Hell, they could all take place on Earth.
It’s interesting that this has spread to a lot of games, too. Astroneer has a bit of diversity with different biomes in each planet, but they’re still basically a collage of 2 slightly different kinds of terrain. Dyson Sphere Program has only 1 biome per planet.
I’ve yet to play Outer Wilds or No Man’s Sky, not sure if those are any different.
spoilers: deep space 9 / s3
having trouble continuing to watch ds9 cause i’m a kira x odo hater and lately in every episode the pining has been non-stop with them. my breaking point is when the writers killed off bareil out of nowhere so they can make it happen. doomed to see a ship i hate become canon why can’t they just be friends
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Oh boy, I don’t want to spoil anything, but if you genuinely hate that ship, then you’ll be entering a world of pain during the next 4 seasons.
10x the ICE funding and 20x the non citizen prison budget really driving home the sheer fascism of the republicans. Dunno why but it got my stomach to drop when I read it in ways that other ontologically evil policies have not.
weekly Dr Who rant
“That is not what tables are supposed to do!”
Some wish-fuckery has rewritten the nature of reality. While Ruby joins the resistance, Belinda and the Doctor stumble around aimlessly until Rogue from last series somehow Skypes the Doctor from hell.
Stuff I liked:
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set design on the weird HR Geiger, bone castle. It was a good merging of the aesthetic sensibilities of both classic and new Dr Who.
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the plot device with the mugs dropping through tables was executed pretty well.
Stuff I didn’t like:
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the return of Omega. Can Dr Who please stop recycling one off villains. Especially considering how particularly final Omega’s previous death was.
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this new version of the Ranni. They took a character with a specific vibe and MO and made her a secondary backup Master.
Overall:
A common pitfall with these two part finale episodes is spending the entire first part on setup, leaving it to feel like kinda an empty episode. I think this episode has fallen into that pitfall. Hopefully next week’s is worth all this build up, but I’m not confident.
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too many kids today talking about the Ballad of Ho Chi Minh and not enough kids talking about the Ballot of H. R. C.
Watching Australian rules football. Are there always this many seagulls? Like are they a part of the sport?
No idea what’s happening but it’s very exciting
The referee gesture for a goal is finger guns, this is the greatest sport ever.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
sunshine feels so fucking good
crackers just aren’t meant to be caretakers of land, i swear, I get like one tick on me and i’m seriously considering just gassing my yard for bugs. they make shit for that, just spray your whole yard dawg, bug genocide
i know it’s wrong but I want to do it 😩 i don’t like bugs 😩 bug free yard sounds so swag 😩 nobody needs to tell me the complex ecology i would be disrupting because i know 😩😩😩
Moving to a new city, trying to rent a house for the first time instead of an apartment, where do you find houses for rent? Apartments.com seems like it wouldn’t have what I’m looking for
Are real estate agents a thing where you’re at? Where I am a lot of people find places through real estate agents, they are usually paid by the landlords to find tenents so you don’t even pay them anything and they will show you places, even to find an average apartment, it blew my mind when I moved to this area. Zillow.com I think might be more house based also though.
At least he acknowledges the existence of the Julian calender now. Also he acknowledges that Jews are not uniquely evil, Israel is just a genocidal colonialist state. In return I had to admit that the quran is well written (No skin off my nose) and may contain eternal spiritual truth the same way any religious book can (Also no skin off my nose).
He didn’t agree to evolution, but he did admit that the existence of vestigial organs and muscles constitutes a theological mystery and would take it up with his imam.
So not productive, but my bad brain is satisfied.
I feel like my adult life could be compared to The Space Shuttle Columbia.
i’m going to be real though and it’s probably been pointed out before already but it’s almost some sort of cosmic justice that Biden, who lied to campaign for president by saying “we’ll cure cancer” if he wins, will now probably die of cancer
and yes I know it’s not a huge win because he’s old and achieved all his ghoulish shit but still cancer is a shitty way to die, like, I’d rank it up there on the list of bad ways to die when you’re old, and if it’s in his bones and shit like lol he’s fucked, the best they can do for him is make shit slightly less painful until his body eats itself
so like, still kind of a win though, and the irony makes it a little juicy.
ALSO we all get to watch him visibly decline, how fun!
Just got into a long discussion with a muslim street preacher because my brain is bad.
fuckkkk I’m enjoying Teogonia, it’s my perfect anime isekai slop, I wish it would come out faster 😩😩😩
