A Revolutionary for Our Time: The Walter Rodney Story

by Leo Zeilig Haymarket Books 4/5/2022, paperback SKU: 9781642595819   Rodney's immensely creative and original use of Marxism was both a challenge to radical understandings of development and colonization but also faithful to a certain framework of analysis in the period he lived Walter Rodney was a scholar, working class militant, and revolutionary from Guyana. Strongly influenced by Marxist ideas, he remains central to radical Pan-Africanist thought for large numbers of activists today. Rodney lived through the failed - though immensely hopeful - socialist experiments in the 1960s and 1970s, in Tanzania and elsewhere. The book critically considers Rodney's contribution to Marxist theory and history, his relationship to dependency theory and the contemporary significance of his work in the context of movements and politics today. The first full-length study of Rodney's life, this book is an essential introduction to Rodney's work. Reviews: "A Revolutionary for Our Time is both timely