Summations, Questions, Answers: a Short Lesson on Revolutionary History LLCO.org Science prevents us from rowing in circles “Greats have come before us. We must learn from them. We must absorb their lessons. We are a link in a long chain of heroes and martyrs. We must rise to the occasion. Shine brightly. Head up. Follow the Leading Light. Be the …
Review of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Part 3/3 LLCO.org Read part 1/3 here. Read part 2/3 here. “Capital was constantly in motion from the metropole to some part of the dependencies, from colonies to other colonies (via the metropoles), from one metropole to another, and from colony to metropole. But because of the superprofits created by non-European peoples …
Review of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Part 2/3 LLCO.org Part 1/3: https://llco.org/review-of-walter-rodneys-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-part-13/ Part 3/3: https://llco.org/review-of-walter-rodneys-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-part-33/ In order to understand why Africa is so impoverished and powerless today, one has to examine the history of power and economy. Development, underdevelopment and power are intertwined. Africa today is a product of its past, just as the imperialist world is also …
Review of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Part 1/3 LLCO.org Part 2/3: https://llco.org/review-of-walter-rodneys-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-part-23/ Part 3/3: https://llco.org/review-of-walter-rodneys-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-part-33/ Walter Rodney was a writer and activist who was influential in the anti-imperialist, the Black Power, and socialist movements across the Black and African worlds. In 1980, Rodney was assassinated in his homeland of Guyana by a car bomb while participating in local …
Jackal bites jackal 29 October 2014 LLCO.org Recently, the leader of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, Motiur Rahman Nizami was sentenced to hang by the neck until death. He was sentenced by a special tribunal that hears unresolved cases connected to the war of liberation that technically ended on December 3, 1971. This has caused much controversy. Many have feared …
Some of Us is an anthology of autobiographical writings by Chinese women from petty-bourgeois backgrounds who grew up during the Cultural Revolution decade, but later moved to the United States to pursue academic careers. The authors are not representative of the majority of Chinese women. Many of the authors are hostile to communism. In addition, the compilation suffers from the inherent limits of oral history, anecdotal approaches. Nonetheless, the book complicates the victim/victimizer narratives of the Cultural Revolution decade; it contains important insights into gender in the Mao era. Despite its flaws, the book provides a welcome contrast to mainstream anti-communist history.
