Guyana's socialism: an interview with Walter Rodney

Prescod, Colin

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“…In 1976, in the course of making a plea for intellectuals to recognize the importance for themselves of their participation in the struggle for liberation, Walter also took the opportunity to explain that "to be a 'revolutionary intellectual' means nothing if there is no point of reference to the struggle of those who are more directly engaged in production." 49 This was always the center of his historical world view, and it was out of this that Pan-Africanism emerged for him as a definite commitment to struggle. It must be stressed that Pan-Africanism could not supplant that world view; it was only valid to the extent that it represented an aspect of its confirmation: "There are only two world views with which we are faced," declared Walter, "one must deal with metaphysics or the idealist formulation of the bourgeoisie or one must move towards scientific socialism."…”

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Walter Rodney and The Restatement of Pan Africanism In Theory and Practice

Hill¹

2015

Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies

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And] yet 'tis clear that few men can be so lucky as to die for a cause, without first of all having lived for it. And as this is the most that can be asked from the greatest man that follows a cause, so it is the least that can be taken from the smallest.-William Morris, The Beauty of Life (1880) 1Discovery creates the unity [and] unity is created in struggle and is so much more valid because it is created in struggle.-Walter Rodney (1974) 2

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confidence: 99%