Podcasts about Walter Rodney

Friends! Comrades! Welcome to another episode of the Radio Reversal podcast, continuing our series on Disaster, Crisis & Collective Futures. If you haven't already listened to the first couple of episodes in this series - never fear! You can jump in fresh here, or head back and listen to Episode 12 - After the Flood & Episode 13 - Disaster Communism with Nick Southall. In these episodes, we chatted about weather events like Cyclone Alfred & what happens during “disasters”: how the parameters of political possibility shift, sometimes incrementally, and sometimes all at once. We talked about two very different expressions of these political ruptures: “disaster capitalism,” where corporations and the state use these events as opportunities to expand state and corporate power and to find new frontiers of capitalist exploitation, and “disaster communism,” in which communities self-organise to support one another, forge networks of mutual aid and care, and build a genuinely radical sense of “class power.”This week, Nat, Jonno & I (Anna) decided to focus a bit more on the way that these dynamics operate in the specific conditions of settler colonialism, especially here in so-called australia. We're engaging with these topics as settlers, living uninvited on unceded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lands, and this is perhaps part of why we are so interested in the way that crises operate as key moments in which settlers are brought into new forms of colonial complicity. In particular, we are digging into a concept that we've been talking about for a few years now: the idea of “crisis colonialism.” We use this as a shorthand way to think about how settler colonial states use periods of crisis - economic depressions, world wars, ecological disasters - as fuel for settler colonial nation-building. In listening back to and editing this week's episode, I realised (largely thanks to a generative conversation with Dr. Jamal Nabulsi, whose incendiary and vital work you can find here and here) that a lot of what we're thinking about in this episode is affect - how people feel during crises, and how those collective emotions are operationalised and weaponised for a variety of political projects. This is a key part of both “disaster capitalism” and “disaster communism,” which we dig into in more detail at the beginning of this episode. But affect is also an important part of our analysis of “crisis colonialism,” and especially the way that settler colonies use moments of crisis to manufacture and secure settler consent for colonial governance through a rotating set of strategies, ranging from fear-based moral panics through to the construction of ideas of “mateship” and community. So in this week's episode, we're looking closer at these dynamics. How exactly do settler colonial states take advantage of periods of crisis? How do these moments become repurposed as fuel for nation-building? How does “securitisation” and policing fit into this process? And as settlers who are engaged in communities of struggle and committed to disrupting settler colonialism… how can we ensure that our collective efforts in these moments don't become fuel for the colonial project that caused the crisis in the first place? This is a big, juicy episode, which means that we talk about (or reference) a bunch of important scholarship that helps us to understand the origins of colonial racial capitalism and the “disaster” horizon of the present. In kicking off with some belated “definitional work,” as Nat puts it, we start by sketching out a working understanding of “disaster capitalism.” We continue our chat about Naomi Klein's 2007 “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and her formative analysis of the way that corporations and states alike use periods of disaster, or “shocks,” to cultivate new “frontiers” to exploit. Klein talks about a number of examples of this phenomenon: from the ways that the destructive impacts of “natural disasters” like the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami can be used to create the conditions for massive land grabs and accelerated privatisation and development under the guise of “reconstruction”; through to the construction of an entire fear-based industry of “homeland security” after the 9/11 terror attacks in the US. We follow this with a very brief chat about Antony Loewenstein's (2015) Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe, where he expands and updates Klein's analysis to trace the diverse ways that disasters have become “big business,” looking at - as he puts it - the way that “companies cash in on or­ganized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining.” A thread that we allude to in the podcast but don't extend is that these works are both interested in the affective impact of disasters on populations: the way that the confusion and “shock” of these events can be quickly turned into fear and suspicion which takes root within the established furrows of colonialism, racism and white supremacy; and which forms the basis of a new economy of privatised security, mass incarceration, and surveillance. Competing against this economy of fear, however, is a counter-economy of generosity, care and radical love that also takes root during disasters. We briefly return to Nick Southall's brilliant account of “disaster communism,” discussed at length in last week's show. We then turn our attention to the “permanent crisis” of settler colonialism, a phrase drawn from Robin D G Kelley's 2017 piece “Crisis: Danger, Opportunity & The Unknown,” in which he describes how colonial racial capitalism “produces something akin to a permanent state of crisis” because it is “built on fictions that must be constantly shored up, not for its victims but for those who stand to benefit.” We trace these contradictory fictions all the way back to the emergence of penal colonialism as a response to the crisis of prison overcrowding in Europe, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, Cedric Robinson, Walter Rodney and Sylvia Federici to emphasise that penal colonialism was both a form of, and a factory for, crisis-management techniques. Finally, we reflect on the many, violent fictions that have been required to enable and sustain the settler colonial project in so-called australia. We draw here on the incredible body of work by First Nations scholars, including Mununjahli & South Sea Islander scholar Chelsea Watego, Darumbal and South Sea Islander scholar and journalist Amy McQuire, Amangu Yamatji theorist Crystal McKinnon, Yuin scholar and criminologist Amanda Porter, Meintagk & Tanganekald scholar Irene Watson, Gumbaynggirr historian Gary Foley and Goenpul scholar Aileen Moreton-Robinson (among many others!) to understand the foundational contradictions of settler colonialism, and why they create the conditions of “permanent crisis” here in so-called australia.From here, I draw out a point that I explore in my PhD thesis (supervised by Chelsea Watego, David Singh, Liz Strakosch & Alissa Macoun), in which I argued that Indigenous peoples' unceded sovereignty and persistent resistance to colonisation represents a foundational and irresolvable contradiction for settler colonial states, which renders them constantly on the precipice of political crisis. This foundational crisis leads settler colonial states to develop robust and sophisticated techniques of crisis-management, ranging from repressive apparatus of policing, prisons, surveillance and punitive systems of state control; through to piecemeal liberal concessions, reforms, and promises of “inclusion.” So what does this mean for how we approach the coming storm? We end this episode with some reflections on how we can build our collective ability to resist colonial complicity: how to refuse the promise of liberal reform; how to reject all attempts to narrow our care, grief and rage to those deemed “grievable” by the colonial state; and how we might work to align ourselves instead with everyone, everywhere, who is fighting to dismantle the colonial capitalist death machinery that causes the “permanent crisis” of the present. Yours in solidarity,The Radio Reversal Collective This is a public episode. 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What gets centred and what gets framed as marginal? Who decides? And what are the consequences? UN expert, feminist scholar and social historian Rhoda Reddock – Professor Emerita at The University of the West Indies – joins us from Trinidad and Tobago to discuss the theme of margins, reflecting on the importance of radical Caribbean thought, the contested meaning of the “global south” and the evolution and significance of Caribbean feminism from the 70s to today.As a member of the UN's Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Rhoda shares her reflections of moving between Switzerland and Trinidad and Tobago for her work. She also gives advice to scholars striving to make an impact – and to those questioning the necessity of moving to the “global north”. Why, Rhoda asks, does scholarship from the “global south” too often get perceived as regionally specific, while the “north” remains regarded as the centre of sociological thought? And how, Rosie and Alexis ask, has the Caribbean typically been regarded – or indeed, dismissed – by the discipline?Plus: Rhoda also shines a spotlight on Trinidadian-American scholar Oliver C. Cox, author of “Caste, Class and Race”, whose work was a precursor to Wallerstein's “World Systems Theory” and also to women's studies today. A fascinating discussion, also featuring celebration of thinkers including CLR James and Walter Rodney, author of “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”.Guest: Rhoda ReddockHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon SenseEpisode ResourcesBy Rhoda ReddockRadical Caribbean Social ThoughtWomen and Slavery in the Caribbean“Conceptualizing ‘Difference' in Caribbean Feminist Theory” in New Caribbean ThoughtRhoda's online profileFrom the Sociological Review FoundationEuropeans, with Manuela  Boatcă – Uncommon Sense podcast episodeGlobal Sociology – online magazine essay collectionDecolonising Methodologies, 20 Years On: The Sociological Review Annual Lecture – Linda Tuhiwai SmithFurther resourcesThe UN's Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)“North-South: A Programme for Survival” – Willy Brandt“Southern Theory: The global dynamics of knowledge in social science” – Raewyn Connell“How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” – Walter Rodney“Caste, Class and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics” – Oliver C. CoxSupport our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense

Activist and professor Tamanisha John joins Musa and Erica to discuss U.S. and Western imperialism in the Caribbean, the U.S.-backed invasion of Haiti by Kenyan forces, and the genocidal U.S. blockade of Cuba. The Walter Rodney speech can be found in full here. Check out Liberation Through Reading here. 

In Today's final Lecture, we review a final graded quiz that explores the concepts covered over the two semesters; to prepare the class for the exam on August 15th, 2024. We begin the Lecture by discussing how learning has evolved with Technology and Artificial Intelligence and how Learning must be memorable. Section A: Differentiate between? a. Global North vs. Global South: b. Democratic Socialism Versus Dependent Capitalism: c. Capitalism vs. Marxism: d. Orientalism vs. Occidentalism: e. Granted Versus Taken Freedoms: f. CPI of zero Vs. CPI one hundred: Section B: Discuss in on paragraph 1. Why is it considered a myth by some academics of the subaltern that Haiti had once colonized the Dominican Republic? 2. What separates Haiti and Cuba from other Caribbean Islands? 3. What is the difference between Afrocentrism and Eurocentrism? 4. Why is Obeah considered evil and what is the original purpose of Voodoo and Obeah? 5. What socio-political condition gave rise to Reggae as a religion and philosophy? 6. The Caribbean is said to be an invention. Who is credited with this idea and do you agree with this description of the Caribbean? Section C: Describe The Following Caribbean Thinkers 1. C.L.R James: Known for works like "The Black Jacobins," was a Marxist historian and political theorist... 2. Walter Rodney: "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" is a seminal work in postcolonial studies. Rodney's Marxist analysis exposed the exploitative nature of European colonialism and its role in perpetuating underdevelopment in Africa and the Caribbean. 3. Homi Bhabha: A postcolonial theorist, is known for his concept of "cultural hybridity" and his critiques of colonial discourse. His work emphasizes the complexities of cultural identity and how colonized peoples negotiate their identities in relation to the dominant. 4. Frantz Fanon: Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth" is a foundational text in postcolonial theory and decolonization movements. Fanon's work explores the psychological effects of colonialism on both the colonizer and the colonized. 5. Bob Marley: 6. Edith Clarke (The Caribbean Sociologist) 7. Garnett Roper: 8. Rex Nettleford: 9. Norman Meeks: Section D: Write Short Essays on any of the following: A. Should theology transcend Culture? Write an essay arguing whether or not you believe that Theology should or should not transcend culture. B. The Jamaican government has announced that it will begin open discussions on the legalization of Obeah in Jamaica. Write an essay arguing for or against the legalization of Obeah in Jamaica. E. It is said that Haiti colonized The Dominican Republic between 1822 and 1844, however many historians such as Eller argue that Haiti's takeover of DR was a lie created by the US and former colonial powers, including Spain. Do you agree or disagree with this narrative that Haitians colonized DR? Explain why you agree or disagree. F. Documentary films such as Life and Debt, and Caribbean Post-Colonial Skeptics such as Ramesh Ramsarwan and David Witter argue that the Caribbean's position of dependency and unstable development is a result of Structural Adjustment policies imposed by Post Industrial countries of the Global North. However, some argue that Caribbean Politicians and leaders were weak-kneed and lacked vision while others such as Prof. Trevor Monroe of the National Integrity Agency in a 2014 documentary film entitled: “Combatting Corruption in Jamaica” blamed political mismanagement of funds and corruption as slowing Jamaica's development. Write an essay making a case for what you believe is responsible for Jamaica's and the Caribbean position today as dependent, vulnerable, and uncompetitive states. The Lecture is delivered by Rev. Renaldo McKenzie (Prof), Author of Neoliberalism and Content Chief/Creator at The Neoliberal. Visit us at https://theneoliberal.com Support us at https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/support Email us at theneoliberalround@renaldocmckenzie.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/support

Summary In this episode, hosts Carolina De La Rosa Mateo and Vidhya Shanker ask, “why evaluation?” We wonder if evaluation can be a site of resistance against racial/gendered capitalism, when capital developed evaluation to support its interests and continues to control the means and ends of knowledge production. Can evaluators renounce capitalism and positivism to organize against exploitation alongside the working class? Can we refuse to take EEI, DEI, CRE, GEDI, CRT, etc. for granted and change the structure of the knowledge economy? Episode 2 transcript Notes 19:45: Access to the written word provides an advantage only in hierarchical systems that devalue oral traditions and non-written languages and knowledge to justify the displacement of entire bodies of knowledge and ways of knowing and the corresponding domination of entire peoples who are portrayed as primitive or unfit to govern themselves 20:30: (Vidhya's elaboration) Tamil language and culture predate Sanskrit and what people now call Hinduism. But the language that brahmins typically claim is Sanskrit. Though no longer spoken, Sanskrit is still used within Hindu hegemony in much the same way that Latin and Greek are used within European hegemony: to provide authority and legitimacy to specific ideas and practices and to discredit others. 23:15: The only time that there is not an adversarial relationship between workers and management is when workers are management, as in self-governed cooperatives 47:06: There is also ⁠the stereotype⁠ that Asians only like numbers—⁠cultivated largely through the 1965 Immigration Act⁠ 47:47: While this happened in 2020, Vidhya meant the 2016 elections References Rodríguez, D. (2016). ⁠The Political Logic of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex⁠. Scholar and Feminist Online—Navigating Neoliberalism in the Academy, Nonprofits, and Beyond, 13.2. ⁠Seizing the Means of Knowledge Production⁠ (6,000-word blog entry) ⁠How Environmentalism was Separated from Class Politics⁠ (60-min video of a Jacobin talk by Matt Huber) ⁠The Professional-Managerial Class⁠ (2-hr video of a Jacobin talk with ⁠Catherine Liu⁠) ⁠The Dialectic of Enlightenment⁠ (25-min video) How Europe Under-developed Africa: 50 years since its publication⁠ (2-hr video about Walter Rodney's activist scholarship) Vidhya's understanding is based on personal communication over time with Justin Laing of ⁠Hillombo Consulting⁠ ⁠Why Marx was Right: Alienation⁠ (25-min video) How Capitalism Absorbs Anticapitalism⁠ (15-min video) ⁠West India Emancipation⁠, speech delivered at Canandaigua, New York, August 3, 1857 “Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them” (p. 139 of Assata: An autobiography, 1987; Lawrence Hill) Marshall, A. G. (2015). ⁠Black Liberation and the Foundations of Social Control⁠. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 74(4), 775–795. Delgado, R. (2009.) ⁠Explaining the Rise and Fall of African-American Fortunes: Interest Convergence and Civil Rights Gains⁠. Harvard Civil Rights—Civil Liberties Law Review, 37: 369–387. Kohl-Arenas, E. (2015). ⁠The Self-Help Myth: Towards a Theory of Philanthropy as Consensus Broker⁠. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 74(4), 796–825. The ⁠MN IBPOC in Evaluation Community of Praxis⁠ Facebook group ⁠The Frankfurt School, Student Radicalism & Anti-Communism⁠ (75-min podcast by Unequal Exchange with ⁠Gabriel Rockhill⁠) ⁠The Frankfurt School: From a Failed Revolution to Critical Theory⁠ (25-min video) ⁠A place for solitude, community & healing for attendees who identify as Indigenous, Black, and People of Color (IBPOC) at Evaluation 2019!⁠ (AEA365 Blog post from 2019) Music “Inspired” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Contact us Website: ⁠https://themay13group.net⁠ LinkedIn: Carolina: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/carodela⁠ Vidhya: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/vidhyashanker

The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Dr. David Hinds Live from Guyana. "An associate professor of African and African American studies with a concentration on Caribbean and African Diaspora Studies in the School of Social Transformation [at Arizona State University], Dr. Hinds' research interests include governance and politics in the Caribbean; race, ethnicity and politics in the African diaspora; and Black political leadership." Gus discovered Dr. Hinds work while reading Eusi Kwayana's A New Look at Jonestown: Dimensions From a Guyanese Perspective - which provides insight on how South Americans processed the horrors of the Jonestown massacre. We'll discuss Dr. Hinds scholarship on Guyanese attempted counter-racist Dr. Walter Rodney. Assassinated on June 13th of 1980, Rodney led protests to investigate the Rev. Jones connections to the Guyanese government and why the tragedy was allowed to happen. We'll explore the history of British "colonialism" in this region and the conflict between non-white people classified as "indian" and the darker non-white people classified as "black." #BlackGetBack #COINTELPRO #TheCOWS15Years INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 605.313.5164 CODE: 564943#

The question may arise, as it relates to the course and what we are contending for, why are we focussed on Haiti? Every time I teach the course the focus is different, yet the conclusions are almost identical. This semester focuses on Haiti, as a case study when studying the Caribbean position in the world today and the currents that have led to its invention as we contend for a reinvented Caribbean in the 21st century. The Lecture begins by analyzing the course and why we are focussing on Haiti by highlighting the idea behind the textbook which is a case study about Jamaica speaking about the Caribbean and global south experience in a post-colonial post-independent world. The Professor uses this to support the ways we are approaching the course. Much like the film Life and Debt a documentary film about Jamaica's socio-political-economic history based on a book about Antigua entitled "A Small Place". The Professor makes the point how each Caribbean experience from colonization to independence and to now has followed similar paths in relation to their position in the world and the international strategies that have come to formulate the Caribbean as an invention. Rev. Renaldo surveys Caribbean economic history drawing on several theorists from the Caribbean and the post-colonial such as Ramesh Ramsarwan, Rex Nettleford, Nelson and Nelson, C.L. R. James, Walter Rodney, and his own work, Neoliberalism book 1. The Lecture also featured a special guest Lecturer, Fr. Hyvenson Josephs, a Haitian American originally from Haiti who is an episcopal Priest living in Florida. He provided the latest update on Haiti indicating that Haitians are demanding a Haitian-led solution that follows the constitution of Haiti. However, Dr. Henry is exiled but remains as the Installed PM by the foreign gang of four - US, Germany, France, and Canada. Further, it was revealed that Canada is training a small group of Jamaican military to go to Haiti to help with security. The Lecture was powerful and ended with Rev. Renaldo McKenzie reviewing an article for the Jamaica Gleaner on the importance of exploring Attitudes Toward Afro-Caribbean Beliefs and Traditions and problematizing the immigration issue. The Class was done via the Zoom platform for the course, Caribbean Thought involving several students registered for the course at Jamaica Theological Seminary, https://jts.edu.jm. The Lecture was edited and produced by The NeoLiberal Corporation for programming at The NeoLiberal Round Youtube Channel and The NeoLiberal Round Podcast. Visit The NeoLiberal at https://theneoliberal.com and https://renaldocmckenzie.com Subscribe to the channel: https://youtube.com/@renaldomckenzie Check us out on Audio Podcast: https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal and Support us at https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/support. The NeoLiberal Corporation is a dynamic think tank, digital news media, publisher, Web Design and IT firm, Research, and Education company aimed at "serving the world today to solve tomorrow's challenges by making popular what was the monopoly". Executive Producer: Renaldo McKenzie, "Author of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance," Creator and Host of The NeoLiberal Round, Doctoral Candidate Georgetown University, Graduate University of Penn and Lecturer Jamaica Theological Seminary Renaldo attended University of the West Indies, Mona, for Philosophy and studied Psychology Caribbean Graduate School of Theology --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/support

Walter Rodney was a historian, political activist, and academic. Born in 1942 in Georgetown Guyana, Rodney's research focused on slavery and colonial imperialism in Africa and the Caribbean. His notable works include How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, first published in 1972. Rodney was assassinated in Georgetown, his home city, in 1980 at the age of 38.  In this episode, we produced Walter Rodney's lecture on “Crisis in the Periphery: Africa and the Caribbean.”

The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles. At once a history for understanding fascism and a handbook for organizing against, The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2024) is an essential book for understanding our present moment and the challenges ahead. From London to the Caribbean, from Ethiopia to Harlem, from Black Lives Matter to abolition, Black radicals and writers have long understood fascism as a threat to the survival of Black people around the world—and to everyone.  In The Black Antifascist Tradition, scholar-activists Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill Mullen show how generations of Black activists and intellectuals—from Ida B. Wells in the fight against lynching, to Angela Y. Davis in the fight against the prison-industrial complex—have stood within a tradition of Black Antifascism. As Davis once observed, pointing to the importance of anti-Black racism in the development of facism as an ideology, Black people have been “the first and most deeply injured victims of fascism.” Indeed, the experience of living under and resisting racial capitalism has often made Black radicals aware of the potential for fascism to take hold long before others understood this danger. The book explores the powerful ideas and activism of Paul Robeson, Mary McLeod Bethune, Claudia Jones, W. E. B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, and Walter Rodney, as well as that of the Civil Rights Congress, the Black Liberation Army, and the We Charge Genocide movement, among others. In shining a light on fascism and anti-Blackness, Hope and Mullen argue, the writers and organizers featured in this book have also developed urgent tools and strategies for overcoming it. Jeanelle Hope is Director & Associate Professor of African American Studies Bill V. Mullen is Professor of English and American Studies at Purdue University. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles. At once a history for understanding fascism and a handbook for organizing against, The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2024) is an essential book for understanding our present moment and the challenges ahead. From London to the Caribbean, from Ethiopia to Harlem, from Black Lives Matter to abolition, Black radicals and writers have long understood fascism as a threat to the survival of Black people around the world—and to everyone.  In The Black Antifascist Tradition, scholar-activists Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill Mullen show how generations of Black activists and intellectuals—from Ida B. Wells in the fight against lynching, to Angela Y. Davis in the fight against the prison-industrial complex—have stood within a tradition of Black Antifascism. As Davis once observed, pointing to the importance of anti-Black racism in the development of facism as an ideology, Black people have been “the first and most deeply injured victims of fascism.” Indeed, the experience of living under and resisting racial capitalism has often made Black radicals aware of the potential for fascism to take hold long before others understood this danger. The book explores the powerful ideas and activism of Paul Robeson, Mary McLeod Bethune, Claudia Jones, W. E. B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, and Walter Rodney, as well as that of the Civil Rights Congress, the Black Liberation Army, and the We Charge Genocide movement, among others. In shining a light on fascism and anti-Blackness, Hope and Mullen argue, the writers and organizers featured in this book have also developed urgent tools and strategies for overcoming it. Jeanelle Hope is Director & Associate Professor of African American Studies Bill V. Mullen is Professor of English and American Studies at Purdue University. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles. At once a history for understanding fascism and a handbook for organizing against, The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2024) is an essential book for understanding our present moment and the challenges ahead. From London to the Caribbean, from Ethiopia to Harlem, from Black Lives Matter to abolition, Black radicals and writers have long understood fascism as a threat to the survival of Black people around the world—and to everyone.  In The Black Antifascist Tradition, scholar-activists Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill Mullen show how generations of Black activists and intellectuals—from Ida B. Wells in the fight against lynching, to Angela Y. Davis in the fight against the prison-industrial complex—have stood within a tradition of Black Antifascism. As Davis once observed, pointing to the importance of anti-Black racism in the development of facism as an ideology, Black people have been “the first and most deeply injured victims of fascism.” Indeed, the experience of living under and resisting racial capitalism has often made Black radicals aware of the potential for fascism to take hold long before others understood this danger. The book explores the powerful ideas and activism of Paul Robeson, Mary McLeod Bethune, Claudia Jones, W. E. B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, and Walter Rodney, as well as that of the Civil Rights Congress, the Black Liberation Army, and the We Charge Genocide movement, among others. In shining a light on fascism and anti-Blackness, Hope and Mullen argue, the writers and organizers featured in this book have also developed urgent tools and strategies for overcoming it. Jeanelle Hope is Director & Associate Professor of African American Studies Bill V. Mullen is Professor of English and American Studies at Purdue University. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles. At once a history for understanding fascism and a handbook for organizing against, The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2024) is an essential book for understanding our present moment and the challenges ahead. From London to the Caribbean, from Ethiopia to Harlem, from Black Lives Matter to abolition, Black radicals and writers have long understood fascism as a threat to the survival of Black people around the world—and to everyone.  In The Black Antifascist Tradition, scholar-activists Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill Mullen show how generations of Black activists and intellectuals—from Ida B. Wells in the fight against lynching, to Angela Y. Davis in the fight against the prison-industrial complex—have stood within a tradition of Black Antifascism. As Davis once observed, pointing to the importance of anti-Black racism in the development of facism as an ideology, Black people have been “the first and most deeply injured victims of fascism.” Indeed, the experience of living under and resisting racial capitalism has often made Black radicals aware of the potential for fascism to take hold long before others understood this danger. The book explores the powerful ideas and activism of Paul Robeson, Mary McLeod Bethune, Claudia Jones, W. E. B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, and Walter Rodney, as well as that of the Civil Rights Congress, the Black Liberation Army, and the We Charge Genocide movement, among others. In shining a light on fascism and anti-Blackness, Hope and Mullen argue, the writers and organizers featured in this book have also developed urgent tools and strategies for overcoming it. Jeanelle Hope is Director & Associate Professor of African American Studies Bill V. Mullen is Professor of English and American Studies at Purdue University. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles. At once a history for understanding fascism and a handbook for organizing against, The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2024) is an essential book for understanding our present moment and the challenges ahead. From London to the Caribbean, from Ethiopia to Harlem, from Black Lives Matter to abolition, Black radicals and writers have long understood fascism as a threat to the survival of Black people around the world—and to everyone.  In The Black Antifascist Tradition, scholar-activists Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill Mullen show how generations of Black activists and intellectuals—from Ida B. Wells in the fight against lynching, to Angela Y. Davis in the fight against the prison-industrial complex—have stood within a tradition of Black Antifascism. As Davis once observed, pointing to the importance of anti-Black racism in the development of facism as an ideology, Black people have been “the first and most deeply injured victims of fascism.” Indeed, the experience of living under and resisting racial capitalism has often made Black radicals aware of the potential for fascism to take hold long before others understood this danger. The book explores the powerful ideas and activism of Paul Robeson, Mary McLeod Bethune, Claudia Jones, W. E. B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, and Walter Rodney, as well as that of the Civil Rights Congress, the Black Liberation Army, and the We Charge Genocide movement, among others. In shining a light on fascism and anti-Blackness, Hope and Mullen argue, the writers and organizers featured in this book have also developed urgent tools and strategies for overcoming it. Jeanelle Hope is Director & Associate Professor of African American Studies Bill V. Mullen is Professor of English and American Studies at Purdue University. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles. At once a history for understanding fascism and a handbook for organizing against, The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2024) is an essential book for understanding our present moment and the challenges ahead. From London to the Caribbean, from Ethiopia to Harlem, from Black Lives Matter to abolition, Black radicals and writers have long understood fascism as a threat to the survival of Black people around the world—and to everyone.  In The Black Antifascist Tradition, scholar-activists Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill Mullen show how generations of Black activists and intellectuals—from Ida B. Wells in the fight against lynching, to Angela Y. Davis in the fight against the prison-industrial complex—have stood within a tradition of Black Antifascism. As Davis once observed, pointing to the importance of anti-Black racism in the development of facism as an ideology, Black people have been “the first and most deeply injured victims of fascism.” Indeed, the experience of living under and resisting racial capitalism has often made Black radicals aware of the potential for fascism to take hold long before others understood this danger. The book explores the powerful ideas and activism of Paul Robeson, Mary McLeod Bethune, Claudia Jones, W. E. B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, and Walter Rodney, as well as that of the Civil Rights Congress, the Black Liberation Army, and the We Charge Genocide movement, among others. In shining a light on fascism and anti-Blackness, Hope and Mullen argue, the writers and organizers featured in this book have also developed urgent tools and strategies for overcoming it. Jeanelle Hope is Director & Associate Professor of African American Studies Bill V. Mullen is Professor of English and American Studies at Purdue University. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles. At once a history for understanding fascism and a handbook for organizing against, The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2024) is an essential book for understanding our present moment and the challenges ahead. From London to the Caribbean, from Ethiopia to Harlem, from Black Lives Matter to abolition, Black radicals and writers have long understood fascism as a threat to the survival of Black people around the world—and to everyone.  In The Black Antifascist Tradition, scholar-activists Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill Mullen show how generations of Black activists and intellectuals—from Ida B. Wells in the fight against lynching, to Angela Y. Davis in the fight against the prison-industrial complex—have stood within a tradition of Black Antifascism. As Davis once observed, pointing to the importance of anti-Black racism in the development of facism as an ideology, Black people have been “the first and most deeply injured victims of fascism.” Indeed, the experience of living under and resisting racial capitalism has often made Black radicals aware of the potential for fascism to take hold long before others understood this danger. The book explores the powerful ideas and activism of Paul Robeson, Mary McLeod Bethune, Claudia Jones, W. E. B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, and Walter Rodney, as well as that of the Civil Rights Congress, the Black Liberation Army, and the We Charge Genocide movement, among others. In shining a light on fascism and anti-Blackness, Hope and Mullen argue, the writers and organizers featured in this book have also developed urgent tools and strategies for overcoming it. Jeanelle Hope is Director & Associate Professor of African American Studies Bill V. Mullen is Professor of English and American Studies at Purdue University. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is Critical Thinking, and why is it essential to the reflection in Caribbean Thought? This week's lecture Topic: Conceptualizing the Course: Critical Thinking and its importance to studying the Caribbean. Consider: A. What Is the Caribbean, and What is the socio-economic context? The Caribbean is an invention of the 20th century? Dependency, Uncompetitive, Developing, Paradise, Poverty, Black and Brown, “Prenetratable”. B. Where is the Caribbean, and are the Caribbean People American? Part of the “New World” C. What is Critical Thinking and how is it important to studying Caribbean Thought? Caribbean as an Invention. D. Do we have any Urban Indian Heritages in the Caribbean? Challenges Arawak to Africans thought. (Renaldo McKenzie, “Have we Misunderstood Our Heritage?” Important Topics/Contributors 1. Immigration 2. Critical Thinking – Today's Lecture 3. Subaltern/History from Below 4. Misclassified Urban Indians – UIHS – Have we misunderstood our heritage? 5. Dependent Capitalism – Renaldo McKenzie 6. Democratic Socialism – Keith and Novella Nelson 7. Neoliberal Globalization/Strategy 8. Franz Fanon/Homi Bhabha 9. Bob Marley/Louise Bennet/Rex Nettleford 10. Stephanie Black and Jamaica Kincaid 11. CLR James, Norman Girman, Walter Rodney, V.S. Naipaul, Ramesh Sarwan, Bishop, Castro and Manley/Seaga 12. Inequality, Poverty, Penetration, Theology, Technology and Opportunity Critical thinking involves challenging previously accepted truths and beliefs, a process essential in Africology and Pan-African studies that encompasses subaltern, nationalist, and post-colonialist thinking. It is thinking about thinking and rethinking what was previously thought. It promotes thinking around the periphery as against the center, transcends pragmatism, and considers Eurocentric and Afrocentric understanding of truths to digress from ethnocentrism. This form of thinking operates within these domains, aiming for specific goals. It can be likened to iconoclastic thinking, as seen when Plato shifted from the Greek notion of the warrior king to the philosopher king, prompting a reevaluation of the hero archetype. Furthermore, critical thinking within these disciplines reimagines individuals through the lens of critical race theory. Critical thinking is a widely accepted educational objective characterized by careful, goal-directed thought. While its definition may vary, it generally involves considering beliefs and knowledge critically, evaluating evidence, and drawing reasoned conclusions. John Dewey, an early advocate, described it as active, persistent consideration of beliefs in light of supporting evidence and potential findings. Over time, standardized tests have been developed to assess critical thinking abilities, with educational interventions shown to enhance them through methods like dialogue and mentoring (Critical Thinking (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cr.... The term 'critical thinking' as an educational objective traces back to the American philosopher John Dewey (1910), who often referred to it as 'reflective thinking'. Dewey defined it as the active, persistent, and meticulous examination of any belief or purported form of knowledge in light of the supporting evidence and the potential conclusions it leads to. He associated this habit of examination with a scientific mindset. Historically, critical thinking gained prominence in the 1930s through initiatives like the Eight-Year Study of the Progressive Education Association, which integrated critical thinking into educational goals. Bloom's taxonomy of cognitive objectives further incorporated critical thinking abilities. Since then, annual conferences and educational reforms worldwide have emphasized its importance, leading to its global inclusion in curricula and assessments. This led to the development of nationalist movements and Afrocentric religions such as Rastafarianism. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/support

This is the third installment of the Fruitless Bookclub, a show-within-a-show, featuring Chris Barker and Jake the Lawyer, where we read all those nonfiction books we've been meaning to read. Today's episode is about How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter RodneyNext month: Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven StollBecome a Fruitless Patron here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=11922141Check out Fruitless on YouTubeFind more of Josiah's work here: https://linktr.ee/josiahwsuttonFollow Josiah on Twitter @josiahwsuttonOther references"Reconsidering a Classic: Walter Rodney's 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa,'" Vanderbilt University on YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCiuFRiOW28.Debt: The First 5000 Years by David GraeberStamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. KendiChildren of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Slavery in Brazil, edited by Robert Edgar Conrad, quote from Section 2.9. "There Are Plantations Where the Slaves Are Numb with Hunger": A Medical Thesis on Plantation Diseases and Their Causes (1847). We got the quote from a smarter person than us on an r/AskHistorians thread, which is here https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ztoexl/comment/j39waqr/."One Giant Leap: Emancipation and Aggregate Economic Gains," Richard Hornbeck and Trevon Logan, Becker Friedman Institute, https://bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/research-summary/one-giant-leap-emancipation-and-aggregate-economic-gains. This is the UChicago article about how slavery is, in fact, unprofitable--the worst thing in the world to UChicago."Oh Dearism," directed by Adam Curtis. I (Josiah) kept referencing the "oh dear" sentiment from this six-minute Curtis documentary but forgot to actually bring it up, so it's right here for the citation perverts reading these notes: https://thoughtmaybe.com/oh-dearism.MusicYesterday – bloom.In My Dreams – bloom.

We read and analyze Walter Rodney's essay "Some Implications of the Question of Disengagement from Imperialism" - where he discusses Issa Shivji's text "The Silent Class Struggle" and its relation to Delinking, the Petty Bourgeoisie, Tanzanian Ujamaa and more. Text here: https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/rodney-walter/works/implicationsofdisengagement.htm --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unequalexchange/support

Well it's probably about time we approached the question of what role the exploitation and appropriation of African labor both before and during colonization played in the development of capitalism. Turns out, it was quite a large one. Reading: Chapters 3-5 from How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) by Walter Rodney Send us a question, comment or valid concern: auxiliarystatements(at)gmail.com DISCORD: https://discord.gg/FAgdS9UD

This is a conversation about Andaiye who was born 81 years ago today on September 11th 1942. For this discussion we speak with Alissa Trotz, who like Andaiye was born in Guyana. Alissa teaches in Women and Gender Studies and Caribbean Studies at the University of Toronto. For the last 15 years she has edited In the Diaspora, a weekly newspaper column in a Guyanese daily newspaper, the Stabroek News. Alissa has worked with Red Thread, the women's organization co-founded by Andaiye, for over two and a half decades. She is the editor of the book we discuss today, The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye published by Pluto Press. The book also has a recently translated Portuguese version, published by Edition Funilaria in Brazil. Andaiye was one of the Caribbean's most important political voices. She was a radical activist, thinker, and comrade of Walter Rodney.  Through essays, speeches, letters and journal entries, Andaiye's thinking on the intersections of gender, race, class and power are profoundly articulated, Caribbean histories emerge, and stories from a life lived at the barricades are revealed. We learn about the early years of the Working People's Alliance, the meaning and impact of the murder of Walter Rodney and the fall of the Grenada Revolution. Throughout, we bear witness to Andaiye's acute understanding of politics rooted in communities and the daily lives of so-called ordinary people. We discuss various writings from this collection. Touching on concepts like negation and self-negation, self-criticism as a political method, Andaiye's concept of the conspiracy of mutual caring, some of her reflections on her time with Walter Rodney in the Working People's Alliance, and a good deal discussing Andaiye's thought around the importance of autonomy in organizing. There are also some discussions of the importance of cross-racial organizing in a context like Guyana with a working class politically divided along racial lines. Alissa shares with us reflections on the work of Red Thread, in which again she and Andaiye both organized. We touch on work around wages for housework, social reproduction and care, and how Andaiye organized around many different issues from violence against women and children to her own battle with cancer. And if you appreciate the work that we do. Our work is 100% funded by our listeners and so if you like the content that we bring you multiple times per week, please join the wonderful folks who support this show and make these conversations possible at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism Links: Purchase the book from our friends at Massive Bookshop or directly from Pluto Press or in Portuguese from Edition Funilaria. Visit their website and read more about Red Thread. Find more of Alissa Trotz's work here, In The Caribbean Diaspora, and at Stabroek News  

In this discussion we talk to CalvinJohn Smiley about his book Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition, which examines how individuals returning to society navigate and negotiate this process with diminished legal rights and amplified social stigmas.  CalvinJohn Smiley, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department of Hunter College-City University of New York. He also has worked to abolish the death penalty, and currently volunteers at Rikers Island and Horizon Juvenile Center facilitating restorative justice programming. We talk to Smiley about his concept of purgatory citizenship, and understanding reentry as a verb rather than a noun. We talk through his application of Walter Rodney's analytical tools from How Europe Underdeveloped Africa to the history of Newark, NJ. Much of this conversation is centered on the experiences of folks returning from prison, and barriers presented by parole and probation processes, navigating housing, employment and many other visible and less visible hurdles. We also discuss the Prison Reentry Industry and its role within the Prison Industrial Complex or Carceral Continuum. You can pick up this book from our friends over at Massive Bookshop.  And speaking of radical abolitionist re-entry work. Our comrades over at Jailhouse Lawyers Speak have been working to build a housing center for women returning from prison. That is still a work in progress and can be supported so we'll put a link to that project in the show notes where you can learn more and support their work there. https://www.jlshousingcenter.com And of course a friendly reminder to support the podcast on patreon if you can. Between the study, the preparation, the editing and all the other aspects of running this show it is more than a full time job for me. Josh also puts in a significant number of hours to the show in addition to other work obligations. We really appreciate all the folks who chip in and make this show possible and if you are a listener who has not yet become a patron of the show, if you can afford to part with as little as $1 a month you can help us keep this show going. We have struggled to hit our goals in recent months and are hoping we can hit our goal for the month of September.  So kick in at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism if you can.

The Neoliberal Corporation: Welcome to The NeoLiberal Journals' “Yesterday's News Today”, where we provide an overview of the most significant news stories that shaped the weekend and have ongoing implications. From geopolitical developments to scientific breakthroughs, Global challenges and Studies. Stay informed with our roundup of the top headlines which will be aired in audio podcast on The NeoLiberal Round on any stream. This is part 1 of the series on the Podcast which presents the e-print version of the edition in the Journals: Overview: This weekend saw several major news stories break across the United States, the Caribbean and around the world. Here are some of the top stories that made headlines on The NeoLiberal Corporation's News Journals and Feeds: 1. UPS Strike Looms as Workers Advocate for Fair Pay in Upcoming Contract Negotiations: The UPS workforce is facing a critical moment as thousands of part-time employees push for higher pay ahead of resumed contract negotiations between the Teamsters union and the delivery giant. With the threat of a potential strike looming if no deal is reached by July 31, 2023, America could witness its biggest strike in 60 years. Here's what you need to know about the ongoing negotiations and the potential impact of a strike on UPS operations and the broader economy. Read the Story in The NeoLiberal Journals by Yoan Bianic, Staff Writer.  2. DOJ Threatens Texas Over Border Actions: The Department of Justice threatened Texas over its border actions this weekend. A fiery clash has ignited between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Texas Governor Greg Abbott over the construction of a floating buoy border barrier to halt illegal immigration into the state. With the DOJ expressing its intention to sue the state over what it deems a violation of federal law, humanitarian concerns, and public safety risks, the dispute highlights the ongoing tensions surrounding the border crisis. Here's what you need to know about the legal battle and the implications of the proposed barrier. Read the story in The Neoliberal Journals written by Donte T. Nelson, Staff Writer.  3. Former President Donald Trump is set to stand trial on May 20, 2024, for hoarding military secrets at his Mar-a-Lago estate, as ordered by U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on Friday. Read the story in The NeoLiberal Journals by Senior Staff Writer and Editor-in-Chief, Renaldo McKenzie, Federal Judge Orders May 2024 Trial for Trump on Military Secrets Charges 4. Greenland's Recent Melting Reveals High Risk of Sea Level Rise Today: A recent study published in the journal Science reveals that about 416,000 years ago, a significant portion of Greenland was an ice-free tundra landscape, potentially covered by trees and inhabited by woolly mammoths. Read the story in The Neoliberal Commentary by Yoan Bianic and Renaldo McKenzie via our LinkedIn Newsletter  5. Exploring Changing Attitudes towards Afro-Caribbean Beliefs in Jamaica: A Study of Socio-Political, Religious, and Cultural Influences: In Jamaica, there has historically been a negative perception towards African and indigenous spiritual practices, religious beliefs, customs, and faiths that draw influences from Urban Indian Heritage or African traditions. Rastafarianism, Obeah, Voodoo, Pocomania or pocco church, revivalists, and Muslim beliefs have often been marginalized, deemed as fringe, demonic, and unpopular, juxtaposed against the inherited traditions from European colonialism. 6. Caribbean Thought Lecture on Walter Rodney and Afro-Caribbean Beliefs These are just some of the top stories that made headlines this weekend. Subscribe to The NeoLiberal Journals for more updates on these and other important news stories. Yesterdays' News Today is a bi-weekly publication of The NeoLiberal Corporation by Renaldo McKenzie Moral Magazine and The NeoLiberal Journals. We will provide a roundup of this week's news on Friday, July 28, 2023, for Issue No. 2. theneoliberal.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/support

On our last show, a couple of weeks ago, we talked about Land Back with David Cobb — specifically, we discussed moving the idea of land back from a metaphor to a reality, by focusing on a specific case in northern California where the city of Eureka actually gave 200 acres of land back to its original stewards, the Wiyot tribe.  On today's episode, we're going to continue the conversation, and, in a way, pull back from the specific policy examples of land back and look at it as an idea again, specifically, as a revolutionary ideological framework that exists as a part of Marxist thought, a continuation of Marxism-Leninism — what has been called decolonial Marxism. To do this, we've brought on Lakota activist and political educator Sungmanitu Bluebird. Sungmanitu grew up in both Detroit and on Pine Ridge reservation and is currently based in Michigan's upper peninsula.  Sungmanitu's work synthesizes Marxism with Indigenous knowledge and decolonial Marxist theory and practice. They are a former member of the Red Nation, a mutual aid movement builder, and an organizer with the Chunka Luta Network, a project meant to push decolonial Marxism-Leninism as described by the Guyanese Marxist academic, writer, and educator, Walter Rodney. Resources: Chunka Luta Network Land Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper Decolonial Marxism:Essays from the Pan-African Revolution by Walter Rodney Questions about the LandBack movement, answered, High Country News Absolutely epic: Blackfeet release wild buffalo on tribal land, Independent Record This new wildlife sanctuary will be unlike any other part of the U.S. — and it's 6 times the size of Yosemite National Park, The Cool Down Follow The Response on Twitter and Instagram for updates, memes, and more. Our entire catalog of documentaries and interviews can be found at theresponsepodcast.org — or wherever you get your podcasts. Want to help spread the word? Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify — it makes a huge difference in reaching new people who may otherwise not hear about this show. The Response is published by Shareable.

Prof. Renaldo McKenzie delivered a powerful final Lecture in Caribbean Thought that was climactic at Jamaica Theological Seminary, exploring Walter Rodney's Struggle for Democracy in Guyana exploring how this struggle for democracy and independence continues even today throughout postcolonial countries of the global south. Rev. McKenzie explained that Walter Rodney, a renowned historian and socialist from Guyana, was not only known for his academic work but also as a political leader. He was an active member of the Working People's Alliance (WPA) and a critic of the authoritarian Forbes Burnham dictatorship. Burnham, though claiming to be socialist, maintained a repressive regime in Guyana and had friendly ties with the United States. He held power through rigged elections and suppression of opposition parties and trade unions. Rodney, aware of the risks, chose to work within Guyana to bring about change. He was assassinated in 1980, drawing international condemnation from figures like Michael Manley, Maurice Bishop, and Fidel Castro. In his essay, written before his death, Rodney analyzed the nature of the Burnham dictatorship, exposing its corruption, incompetence, and tactics for consolidating power. He criticized the regime's personality cult and its attempts to appear as a democracy while suppressing fundamental rights. Renaldo raised and expounded on questions that Mr. Rodney seem to be answering in his Essay via Jacobin magazine: 1. Question: How can the working class challenge the Burnham dictatorship and assert its power? 2. Question: What is the significance of civil disobedience and non-cooperation in the struggle for liberation? 3. Question: How can national unity be achieved in Guyana, given its diverse racial and class divisions? 4. Question: What is the alternative to the Burnham dictatorship, and how can the people reclaim their rights and restore democracy? 5. Question: How can resistance be sustained against the violence and intimidation of the dictatorship? Prof. McKenzie concluded this section of the Lecture with a summary, "Rodney's essay explores essential questions related to working-class power, national unity, and the path towards liberation in Guyana. His answers highlight the historical lessons of collective labor actions, civil disobedience, and the need for a government of national unity as a clear alternative to the oppressive dictatorship. He calls for a united and determined effort to reclaim democracy and build a just and equitable society for all Guyanese." Part 2 of the Lecture: Afro-Caribbean Beliefs: Prof. McKenzie then shifts gears to explore Afro-Caribbean Beliefs in Jamaica and to discuss a study that the class will be embarking on to ascertain how Caribbean people's attitudes towards their Afro-Caribbean Beliefs are changing. Rev. McKenzie discussed Afro Caribbean Beliefs especially those in Jamaica: According to Rev. McKenzie, "in Jamaica, there has historically been a negative perception towards African and indigenous spiritual practices, religious beliefs, customs, and faiths that draw influences from Urban Indian Heritage or African traditions. Rastafarianism, Obeah, Voodoo, Pocomania or pocco church, revivalists, and Muslim beliefs have often been marginalized, deemed as fringe, demonic, and unpopular, juxtaposed against the inherited traditions from European colonialism. The Judeo-Christian faith, such as Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and evangelicalism, has been favored and considered closer to the truth and the ideal. However, in the 21st century, with increased exposure, awareness, critical thinking, and a more liberal lifestyle, particularly among the younger generation, it is crucial to investigate whether attitudes towards Afro-Caribbean beliefs are changing. Listen to the full Lecture in Audio Podcast on any stream or watch on our Spotify or YouTube Prof. McKenzie is Author of Neoliberalism and the upcoming book on Neo-Capitalism. Visit us Https://theneoliberal.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/support

If God is universal, can we contend for a theology of God that transcends culture? However, Kant said that "History is a result of the varieties of human natures and circumstances," and throughout history man has imposed an idea of God that caters to his privileges, context and goals. Muta Baruka said that God is a human creation, meaning that the way we understand God is the way human have determined that we see God, stroking human egos. Yet, Paul Tillich declared that God is man's ultimate concern and possess that internal drive which predisposes him to a reality of God that is deep which has always escaped him so that we live our lives pursuing the existence of God through worship, faith or some transcendental experience. Just as human drives lead him/her to contend with the truth of his own existence within multiple realities of time and space which extends beyond the world, he/she finds himself/herself in the outer space. Human beings are always working to discover something beyond themselves, either within or without and find themselves travelling as far as to the Moon in hopes of finding truth that extends from the limitations of life on earth or within his personal domains. Yet Descartes philosophizes that what we know for certain is not beyond the subjective. Nevertheless, Man has imposed a reality of God that is universal and objective in the hopes of advancing a life that places him or her above the rest. We say that life is about people and how they relate. Yet, life is what people make of it and human tendencies to promote self has created dynamics couched in the universal creation of a God that exceptionalizes his personal experiences and cultures and go as far as to discredit other ideas and perspectives of God that competes with his position and place in life. This has led to the Conquests and crusades and the destruction of cultures where some with a westernize theology of God created a New World in the eyes of their perspectives. The Europeans went to Africa and the Caribbean to Spread religion in the name of a God to spread religion, a particular way of life and to take away the prospects of others which they justify in that same faith thy have come to promote. Discrediting those who have found God for themselves. Walter Rodney wrote how Europe underdeveloped Africa, yet Europeans justify their efforts based in a Theology that is exceptional and one that promotes their cultures and ways over others. Was it not Balfour in Crowmer that said in English parliament in the 1600's that England knows what is best for Egypt and that if anything good came out of Egypt is a result of the English who brought religion to Africa as if what the Egyptians and Africans had were primitive or devilish. So, we speed forward today and question how our theology comes from a legacy that creates a way of life that limits any plausible resistance to domination and control for such was the strategy that led to the takeover. Using a religion from a particular space.... But Caribbean Theology critically re-examines the history of a theology that is devoid of our legacies outside of European experiences. In today's Discussion in Caribbean Theology, the students using Caribbean Theologians such as Lewin Williams, Rev. Garnette Roper et al critically examines the top-down Theology that has created these dynamics in life that has led to the position of man in the global south as against the global north and races. Rev. Renaldo McKenzie is an Adjunct professor at Jamaica Theological Seminary and Author of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance and the upcoming book: Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered, Neo-Capitalism and the Death of Nations. Renaldo is the President of The Neoliberal Corporation including The NeoLiberal Journals, The NeoLiberal Post, The NeoLiberal Blogs, The NeoLiberal Round Podcast and YouTube Channel etc. https://theneoliberal.com. Support this podcast and advertise with us! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/support

On June 7th, 2023, at Jamaica Theological Seminary: Critical thinking in Caribbean Thought: What Is the Caribbean and What is the socio-economic context? the Caribbean is an invention of the 20th century. Where is the Caribbean and are the Caribbean people Americans? What is Critical Thinking and how is it important to the study of Caribbean Thought? Do we have any Urban Indian Heritages in the Caribbean? Important Themes/Topics/Contributors: Immigration Subaltern/History from Below Misclassified Urban Indians - Dependent Capitalism – Renaldo McKenzie, Democratic Socialism – Keith and Novella Nelson, Neoliberal Globalization/ Strategy. Franz Fanon/Homi Bhabha, Bob Marley/Louise Bennet/Rex Nettleford Stephanie Black and Jamaica Kincaid, CLR James, Norman Girman, Walter Rodney, V.S. Naipaul, Ramesh Sarwan, Bishop, Castro and Manley/Seaga inequality, Poverty, Penetration, Theology, Technology and Opportunity Introduction: Define critical thinking as evaluating thoughts and challenging truths. Emphasize reflection and the pursuit of progress through critical thinking. Descartes and Existential Dilemma: Explore Descartes' quote "Cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am). Note its limited proof of existence to one's own reality. Critical Thinkers Throughout History: Discuss influential thinkers like Foucault, Kant, and Marx. Highlight their challenges to norms and impact on societal progress. Post-Colonial and Post-Modern Perspectives: Question dominant narratives and institutionalism. Examples: Fanon, Bhabha, Naipaul. Analyzing and Evaluating: Describe critical thinking as metaphysical and analytical. Highlight use of logic, reason, and exploring thoughts. Fairness, Openness, and Bias: Acknowledge personal bias and examine multiple perspectives. Emphasize fair and open-minded evaluation. Developing Critical Thinking: Developed through training, exploration, and challenging beliefs. Reliance on clear reasoning and past knowledge. Postcolonial Man as a Critical Thinker: Postcolonial individuals engaging in critical thinking. Skepticism towards history and moral codes. Conclusion: Summarize key points and reinforce critical thinking as transformative. Encourage further engagement in critical thinking. Part 2: “The Negro Is Not Anymore Than the Whiteman,” Fanon What does Fanon Mean by this? Unveiling the Authentic Self: Analyzing Black, Brown, and Pan-African Struggles for Prosperity and Independence. We begin by Exploring Black, Brown, and Pan-African Struggles for Prosperity and Independence in the Context of Historical and Current Realities. Frantz Fanon's psychoanalysis of the "colonized" individual, challenging dominant perspectives and aiming for self-empowerment. Homi Bhabha further examines the disruption of colonial subjects' alignment, revealing an authentic self through a break from the norm. Shifting to Jamaica, using Mckenzie's Neoliberalism Book the Caribbean, and the Global South, this analysis acknowledges the idealized image of paradise while addressing the economic and political challenges faced by the people. Copyright: The NeoLiberal Corporation and Renaldo McKenzie, 2023. Original and full presentation by Renaldo McKenzie, 2022 (What is Critical Thinking in The NeoLiberal Journals), summarized for PowerPoint by AI. Made with Clipchamp/Zoom/ https://theneoliberal.com. Renaldo is Adjunct Professor and Author of Neoliberalism. https://renaldocmckenzie.com For references, contact us. The NeoLiberal Corporation is celebrating 2 years of service and dedication to progress, empowerment, diversity and research. We have touched over 100,000 people worldwide. We need your help to capitalize on our opportunities and potential to reach more with dynamic and innovative programming and works. Please support us: Subscribe for Free and Donate to the Podcast. Join Our Book Fund Raising Campaign Visit us - The Neoliberal is serving the world today to solve tomorrow's challenges by making popular what was the monopoly. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/support

What does it mean to write with not just logos but pathos? How has racial violence in America shaped the identity of Asian-Americans? Why is the "model minority" myth so problematic? And what possibilities emerge from recognizing that people of different nationalities share a common repression? Van speaks with Gaiutra Bahadur about her experience growing up around anti-Indian racism in New Jersey and how that sheds light on all these questions and more.Gauitra's essay, "Unmaking Asian Exceptionalism": https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/unmaking-asian-exceptionalism-bahadur/Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://www.un-diplomatic.com

In this episode I discuss some recent books that I've finished and been reading about Walter Rodney, Fidel Castro, Claudia Jones, and the struggles for liberation in the Caribbean, Africa and the domestic colonies of and owned by the United States

In this episode, we talk about the Cuban revolution, Claudia Jones, Walter Rodney, the importance of social relations, the necessity to focus on the most oppressed in the most exploited, as well as introducing, some of the ways in which western leftists, have tended to make mistakes on the question of legitimate revolution, and what it takes

Another Caribbean thinker, Walter Rodney of Guyana, explores Africana history from a Marxist perspective. 

Rev. Renaldo McKenzie continues with the Lectures in Caribbean Thought at the Jamaica Theological Seminary for the Course Caribbean Thought. This week we: A. introduce thinkers and Commentaries from the Jacobins Publications on Caribbean Influences and stories, such as C.L.R James, Walter Rodney, Marcus Garvey and Bob Marley who we will consider for the next class. 1. Walter Rodney and the Struggle for Democracy in Guyana: The famed historian Walter Rodney was also an important political leader in his native country. In this republished essay, Rodney sets out a biting critique of the Forbes Burnham dictatorship that went on to murder him in 1980, forty years ago today.2. Grenada's Revolution Should Never Be Forgotten: Forty years ago, a socialist revolution in the tiny Caribbean Island of Grenada threatened to upturn the world economic order.3. Grenada's Revolution Should Never Be Forgotten: Forty years ago, a socialist revolution in the tiny Caribbean Island of Grenada threatened to upturn the world economic order.4. C. L. R. James and the Black Jacobins of Haiti: C. L. R. James was one of the twentieth century's intellectual giants. During a life of intense political engagement, he wrote classic books about the struggle against slavery and the social history of sport, never flinching in his socialist commitment.5. Bob Marley's Peace Gesture Supported Radical Change in Jamaica: An iconic 1978 image shows Bob Marley uniting left- and right-wing party leaders on stage, calling for a truce. Misread as apolitical, his gesture was actually meant to rescue a socialist political movement in danger.6. How C. L. R. James Helped End the Racial Hierarchy of West Indies CricketNo matter how well black West Indies cricketers played before 1960, they never made captain. When the political winds changed, Trinidadian Marxist intellectual C. L. R. James threw himself into the campaign to transform both the sport and popular consciousness.B. We commented on the issue of immigration and new trends and method of immigration. We learned that Jamaicans are now using Mexico to enter the US and are even paying Agents to do so. We discuss the immigration problem and then,C. segway into the book Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance, looking an Overview of the Socio-Economic Context of Caribbean. A. Neoliberal Restructuring, Income Inequality, and Poverty in Jamaica from the Mid-1970s: Hypothesis: if neoliberalizing economic structures create inequity and poverty, then income inequality and poverty should trend upward in Jamaica from the mid-1970s to 2008 (and to the present).B. Brief Overview of Jamaica's Sociopolitical and Economic Context1. 1492–1960'S: FROM COLUMBUS “BUCK UP” TO INDEPENDENCEHistorically, Jamaica was stratified along racial and class lines stemming from the plantation system.58 Jamaica became a colony of Britain in 1655 after Britain success-fully defeated Spain, which profited from and controlled the island's wealth for a century. Christopher Columbus opened Jamaica to the global trading map in 1492 when he landed accidentally (or “buck up”) on an inhabited West Indian Island. This was the advent of colonial capitalism where European colonists exploited the native Taíno people's labor, abused their women, and annihilated their race in Jamaica. The Taíno Indians, a sub-group of the Arawakan Indians (a group of American Indians in northeastern South America), inhabited the Greater Antilles (comprising Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola[Haiti and the Dominican Republic], and Puerto Rico) in the Caribbean Sea when Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World. Renaldo McKenzie is author of Neoliberalism, a Doctoral Student of Georgetown University. Renaldo is working on a second book, Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered, Neo-Capitalism and the Death of Nations. The Neoliberal Corporation, Serving the world today to solve tomorrow's challenges, by making popular, what was the monopoly. theneoliberal.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theneoliberal/support

In a recent book on the ongoing relevance of Walter Rodney's work, Karim F. Hirji notes that, “as with scores of progressive intellectuals and activists of the past, the prevailing ideology functions to relegate Rodney into the deepest, almost unreachable, ravines of memory. A person who was widely known is now a nonentity, a stranger to the youth in Africa and the Caribbean” and the U.S. Rodney's theoretical and practical contributions to the socialist movement warrant an ongoing engagement with his life story and major texts. Rodney's most recent, posthumously-published text, The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World, offers an important perspective on the time period in which it was written and the internal position of the author. Rodney's family worked with Robin Kelley in taking Walter's extensive lecture notes on the Russian revolutionary era and forming them into a complete manuscript. This essay, which complements our new study guide on The Russian Revolution, offers a brief overview of Rodney's background historical context. Highlighting aspects of Rodney's individual life demonstrates that his commitments were not just the result of his own individual experiences and conclusions, but were part of and emerged from the revolutionary crisis ripping through the world at the time. To better comprehend A View from the Third World, we turn to Groundings with My Brothers, which Rodney produced as a relatively new professor in Jamaica. In that book, Rodney reflects on the dialectical pedagogy he developed to make his academic labor part of the global movement against capitalist imperialism, which he also called the white power structure. Read the full article here: https://www.liberationschool.org/walter-rodney-a-peoples-professor/

Musa Springer joined me for an introduction to Walter Rodney.   Musa Springer is a cultural worker and community organizer, host of the Grounding podcast, and a volunteer with the Walter Rodney Foundation.   I.G. @TheGambian @Paranoid_Alive Twitter: @MomodouTaal @HalfAtlanta

This episode is about the Campaign to Free the Pendleton 2. In this discussion Too Black from the Defense Committee to Free the Pendleton 2 and from Black Myths Podcast returns to MAKC. He is joined by Rodney “Big R” Jones and TheKingTrill. Big R, who was incarcerated in Indiana State Penitentiary in 1985 along with the Pendleton 2 talks about the events that led to the egregious political repression of John "Balagoon" Cole and Christopher "Naeem" Trotter. Each of our guests share details of the case and the campaign. In discussing the campaign we get into some basics of organizing, and building an organization or coalition around a campaign that has a fighting chance in the midwest. Also a discussion about how we politicize issues and activate people into action and struggle around an issue, rather than resting at the level of sympathy and caring. Beyond that there's an important discussion around building connection inside and out, and on the ethic of care, and defense and preservation that animates the Pendleton 2, which is not unique to them at all, but is absolutely noteworthy and admirable. Two quick plugs for us, we are sending copies of Decolonial Marxism by Walter Rodney into our incarcerated reading group this month. Support here. Also we do have a push this month to add 40 patrons, we need 11 more new patrons to hit that goal, so if you appreciate the work we do bringing you these conversations on a weekly basis, your financial support is what really makes that possible. Join up with the other amazing folks who make this show possible for as little as $1 a month at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism We're going to include a bunch more links about this struggle, ways to get involved, ways to learn more and do political education around it for yourself and for others, and stay tuned towards the end of the episode there's more discussion on what the campaign needs and how you can plug in and support directly. Content Notice: This episode does contain discussions of anti-Black violence & brutality, but they are critical to understanding the campaign and supporting the freedom of the Pendleton 2. Links: Idocwatch.org Trailer for the film, The Pendleton 2: They Stood Up Directed by TheKingTrill, Produced/Edited by Too Black, featuring Big R LinkTree for ways to learn/support the Pendleton 2 TheKingTrill's Youtube Channel Email for the Campaign To Free The Pendleton 2 is thependleton2 at gmail dot com  

In this episode Dylan Rodríguez returns to the podcast.  Dylan Rodríguez is a teacher, scholar, organizer and collaborator who has maintained a day job as a Professor at the University of California-Riverside since 2001. His lifework focuses on liberationist, anticolonial, and abolitionist confrontations with the antiblack, colonial, and white supremacist violences that permeate the ongoing Civilization project. He was elected to serve as President of the American Studies Association in 2020-2021, and in 2020 was named to the inaugural class of Freedom Scholars. Since 2021, he has served as Co-Director of the Center for Ideas and Society. Since the late-1990s, Dylan has participated as a founding member of organizations like Critical Resistance, Abolition Collective, Critical Ethnic Studies Association, Cops Off Campus, Scholars for Social Justice, and the UCR Department of Black Study, among others. He is the author of three books, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide (Fordham University Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Frantz Fanon Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. In January of 2021 we published an episode with Rodríguez on his most recent book White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide. In that conversation along with many of the other themes and topics from that book, Rodriguez began to frame out some thoughts with us on counterinsurgency. This past fall on Black Agenda Report, Dylan published an interview with Roberto Sirvent entitled "Insurgency and Counterinsurgency."  In this episode we pick up that conversation, talking about counterinsurgency as a totality, as a curriculum, and as epistemic. We get into various elements of what that means to Rodriguez, and about the composition of the counterinsurgent bloc. We also talk about how we recognize it, resist it and embrace beautiful revolutionary wildness. For this month our book for incarcerated readers is Walter Rodney's Decolonial Marxism. A big thank you to Verso Books for donating the copies. We do need to raise some money for shipping for those and there's a link in the show notes where you can pitch in to that effort over at Massive Bookshop. We also have a big goal for this month, we're hoping to add 40 patrons for the show. Despite meeting our goal in February, we actually had more non-renewals than new patrons for the month. So we are hoping we can make up for that in March. Our show is totally supported by listeners like you, we don't sell ads and we don't run on any grants. So if you appreciate our work and get something out of it, then become a patron of the show for as little as $1 a month at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism Links:  More of Dylan's books, edited collections, and writings (in collections) can be found at Massive Bookshop. Dylan Rodríguez can be reached on Twitter (@dylanrodriguez), Instagram (dylanrodriguez73), and Facebook.  

Isaac and Jackson join David Austin, author of Fear of a Black Nation and Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution, for a discussion of the Afro-Caribbean diasporic left, focusing on Montreal in the late 60s. They discuss the influence of the U.S. black power movement on the world, the black left in Montreal, and in particular the confluence between Caribbean nationalism and Quebec nationalism. They discuss the Congress of Black Writers, Walter Rodney's presence in it and how the development of the Afro-caribbean left literature creates a fertile ground for the development of politics.

Who is Walter Rodney? We go over his famous work, “Groundings with my Brothers” and some of his history, the different chapters and what they discuss and why this work is so important. This is ONLY an intro, please check out other content, YouTube videos, Rodney's speeches and writings, and the Walter Rodney Foundation!

Listen to the Sun. Feb. 26, 2023 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the national elections in the Federal Republic of Nigeria where voting continued well into a second day; the government of Belarus has announced that President Alexander Lukashenko will be visiting the People's Republic of China this coming week; there is growing opposition within the European Union member-states to the massive arms shipments to Ukraine aimed at bolstering the pro-United States forces; and China is escalating its defenses in light of the hostile maneuvers by the Pentagon near the South-China Sea. In the second and third hours we conclude our focus on African American History Month with segments reviewing the contributions of Lorraine Hansberry, Mike Hamlin and Walter Rodney.

This is Lecture 5 of Caribbean Thought, a course at the Jamaica Theological Seminary Lectured by Rev. Renaldo C. McKenzie, Dated February 10, 2023. This is a continuation of week 4 and the Lecture series towards developing a Caribbean Thought Journal. The Lecture was quite powerful as usual. We continued from week 4, conceptualizing the course Caribbean Thought when we had asked, "what is Caribbean Thought, and who determines this?" This week we ask, why who determines this and why is it important for us to revisit the past. The lecture delved into this question by lifting up a current situation in the Caribbean - The Haitian Crisis - where The US and Canada is pressuring the Caribbean to intervene in Haiti on their behalf. We examine this issue in relation to the Caribbean socio-economic challenges which has defined present realities which imposes on cultural identity. We explored this within the context of our understanding of the Caribbean being part of the pan-African struggle for not just independence but economic prosperity that allows them to compete. When we go back in history, we explore situations where the Caribbean's inability to truly realize pan-African goals in light of strategy that continue to keep these peoples and countries down - Debt. We begin the class by revisiting the conclusion of the class: "...the Caribbean represents a people who have been disrupted, detached, displaced, hybridized and made into dependent capitalist states with some level of modernity to promote consumption within the neoliberal globalized world which is largely a consumer society." We then moved into Lecture 5 by exploring the course outline: Course Description: This course focuses on and explores the diverse currents of Caribbean Thought, which have influenced the development of Caribbean societies from colonialism to independence and beyond. It traces the history of resistance and examines the quest for equality and the challenge of defining Caribbean identity within this post-colonial and neoliberal Globalized world not just within the geographic sense but also in terms of a diasporic sense.... The course surveys the history and philosophy of the Caribbean and the ways in which the Caribbean has emerged as a society in the shadow of colonialism and emergence of neoliberal Globalization. It examines the central ideological currents of twentieth century political thought in the region and covers broad topics such as Colonialism, Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Socialism, Marxism, Feminism, Democratic Socialism and Neo-Conservatism, Neoliberalism, Globalization and Deconstructivism, Critical Race Theory, Strategy and the Foundations of Knowledge and the Hegemony of Faith, Economic Inequality and Poverty....Among the thinkers/works that will be considered throughout the course are Marcus Garvey, George Padmore, C.L.R. James, V.S. Naipaul, W. Benjamin, M. Foucault, Franz Fanon, Walter Rodney, Fidel Castro, Michael Manley, Edward Seaga, Bob Marley Kamau Brathwaite, Edouard Glissant and the Negritude movement generally, Homi Bhabha, Mike Davis, Nelson/Novella Keith, Stephanie Black and Jamaica KinCaid, Garnett Roper, Rex Nettleford and the Professor's Works. We then begin to explore Caribbean thinkers: Ramesh F. Ramsaran who wrote in the Preface of his book, "The Challenge of Structural Adjustment in the Commonwealth Caribbean," Yet we say: We celebrate #Haiti as the 1st former colonized black country to successfully lead a revolution beating Napoleon. But France turned around & charged them 24 billion to recognize their freedom which Haiti gullibly paid—that has held them down. We concluded with Edward Seaga PM of Jamaica in a 1983 Lecture: "I wish to talk to you about the strategy which I believe can best attain a quality of life for the peoples of Middle Level countries of the developing world," (Seaga, 1983, p. 23, in New Directions.) https://theneoliberal.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/support

This is Lecture 5 of Caribbean Thought, a course at the Jamaica Theological Seminary Lectured by Rev. Renaldo C. McKenzie, Dated February 10, 2023. This is a continuation of week 4 and the Lecture series towards developing a Caribbean Thought Journal. The Lecture was quite powerful as usual. We continued from week 4, conceptualizing the course Caribbean Thought when we had asked, "what is Caribbean Thought, and who determines this?" This week we ask, why who determines this and why is it important for us to revisit the past? The lecture delved into this question by lifting up a current situation in the Caribbean - The Haitian Crisis - where The US and Canada is pressuring the Caribbean to intervene in Haiti on their behalf (See the Podcast/Youtube video with Brian Concannon). We examine this issue in relation to the Caribbean socio-economic challenges which has defined present realities which imposes on cultural identity. We explored this within the context of our understanding of the Caribbean being part of the pan-African struggle for not just independence but economic prosperity that allows them to compete. When we go back in history, we explore situations where the Caribbean's inability to truly realize pan-African goals in light of strategy that continue to keep these peoples and countries down - Debt. We begin the class by revisiting the conclusion of the class: "...the Caribbean represents a people who have been disrupted, detached, displaced, hybridized and made into dependent capitalist states with some level of modernity to promote consumption within the neoliberal globalized world which is largely a consumer society." We then moved into Lecture 5 by exploring the course outline: Course Description: This course focuses on and explores the diverse currents of Caribbean Thought, which have influenced the development of Caribbean societies from colonialism to independence and beyond. It traces the history of resistance and examines the quest for equality and the challenge of defining Caribbean identity within this post-colonial and neoliberal Globalized world not just within the geographic sense but also in terms of a diasporic sense.... The course surveys the history and philosophy of the Caribbean and the ways in which the Caribbean has emerged as a society in the shadow of colonialism and emergence of neoliberal Globalization. It examines the central ideological currents of twentieth century political thought in the region and covers broad topics such as Colonialism, Nationalism, Pan-Africanism (See Groups'2 Paper on Pan-Africanism – we defined Pan-Africanism reading from their exceptional essay which delved into Pan Africanism), Socialism, Marxism, Feminism, Democratic Socialism and Neo-Conservatism, Neoliberalism, Globalization and Deconstructivism, Critical Race Theory, Strategy and the Foundations of Knowledge and the Hegemony of Faith, Economic Inequality and Poverty....Among the thinkers/works that will be considered throughout the course are Marcus Garvey, George Padmore, C.L.R. James, V.S. Naipaul, W. Benjamin, M. Foucault, Franz Fanon, Walter Rodney, Fidel Castro, Michael Manley, Edward Seaga, Bob Marley Kamau Brathwaite, Edouard Glissant and the Negritude movement generally, Homi Bhabha, Mike Davis, Nelson/Novella Keith, Stephanie Black, Jamaica KinCaid, Garnett Roper, Rex Nettleford and the Professor's Works We then begin to explore Caribbean thinkers: Ramesh F. Ramsaran who wrote in the Preface of his book, "The structural adjustment issue is, not surprisingly, one surrounded by intense controversy and emotion. This is because it does not concern simply with economic policies or improving government performance but brings into question basic economic philosophy and ideology and may also involve the effective transfer of decision-making from local hands." The Caribbean must critically reflect on its position in relation to life...theneoliberal.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/support

This is the Bonus Video of Season 6, episode 3 available on Spotify and our YouTube channel. As stated in the primary episode in audio: this episode begins the Lecture Series at the Jamaica Theological Seminary on Caribbean Thought: Towards Developing a Caribbean Thought Academic Audio Journal. This is a video episode uploaded from the class Zoom Recording as I am teaching the course via an online face-to-face module while here in Philadelphia USA. This course focuses on and explores the diverse currents of Caribbean Thought, which have influenced the development of Caribbean societies from colonialism to independence and beyond. It traces the history of resistance and examines the quest for equality and the challenge of defining Caribbean identity within this post-colonial and neoliberal Globalized world not just within the geographic sense but also in terms of a diasporic sense. It challenges the students to develop and express their own critical thinking as a Caribbean people within a unique way that helps to realize further the hope of a free independent Caribbean that is bursting with hope and opportunity. But the course understands that it requires that students begin to critique and explore their own thinking in deeply esoteric and critical way that deconstructs history and philosophy. At the end they will create their own Caribbean thought leading to a Caribbean Academic Journal of Young academics and future scholars. The Course will make you estranged from self, but it is geared towards getting you out of your bubble and to consider issues that will make you uncomfortable. The WES explored ways that we can prepare students for the global world. That means moving from the local and turning to the global as we are global citizens. The course surveys the history and philosophy of the Caribbean, the ways in which the Caribbean has emerged as a society in the shadow of colonialism and emergence of neoliberal Globalization. It examines the central ideological currents of twentieth century political thought in the region and covers broad topics such as Colonialism, Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Socialism, Marxism, Feminism, Democratic Socialism and Neo-Conservatism, Neoliberalism, Globalization and Deconstructivism, Critical Race Theory, Strategy and the Foundations of Knowledge and the Hegemony of Faith, Economic Inequality and Poverty.  Among the thinkers that will be considered throughout the course are Marcus Garvey, George Padmore, C.L.R. James, Franz Fanon, Homi Bhaba, Walter Rodney, Fidel Castro, Michael Manley, Edward Seaga, Bob Marley Kamau Brathwaite, Edouard Glissant and the Negritude movement generally, Homi Bhaba, Mike Davis, Nelson and Novella Keith, Stephanie Black and Jamaica KinCaid, Garrnett Roper, Rex Nettleford etc. Themes will be drawn from a selection of contemporary newspaper columnists, talk‐show hosts and the ideas behind the major international agencies and institutions, which have shaped post-independence policies. The selection of thinkers and social movements to be examined will vary with each semester. This is Part 1. 1. Introductions 2. (32) Privilege, Power, Position and the Need for Critical Thinking | LinkedIn 3. Caribbean thought, Ideology and Philosophy (Foundations of Knowledge) The Phaedo, Plato & Socrates 4. Orientalism and Occidentalism The class did not complete Part 1 of the Lesson Plan and will therefore continue with Lesson on Part 2. Rev. Renaldo McKenzie is Creator/Host of The Neoliberal Round Podcast, Adjunct Professor at Jamaica Theological Seminary and President of The Neoliberal Corporation. He is also author of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance and is working on a new book: Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered. Renaldo is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University and graduated from University of Pennsylvania.  www.anchor.fm/theneoliberal/www.theneoliberal.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/support

This episode begins the Lecture Series at the Jamaica Theological Seminary on Caribbean Thought: Towards Developing a Caribbean Thought Academic Audio Journal. This is a video episode uploaded from the class Zoom Recording as I am teaching the course via an online face-to-face module while here in Philadelphia USA. This course focuses on and explores the diverse currents of Caribbean Thought, which have influenced the development of Caribbean societies from colonialism to independence and beyond. It traces the history of resistance and examines the quest for equality and the challenge of defining Caribbean identity within this post-colonial and neoliberal Globalized world not just within the geographic sense but also in terms of a diasporic sense. It challenges the students to develop and express their own critical thinking as a Caribbean people within a unique way that helps to realize further the hope of a free independent Caribbean that is bursting with hope and opportunity. But the course understands that it requires that students begin to critique and explore their own thinking in deeply esoteric and critical way that deconstructs history and philosophy. At the end they will create their own Caribbean thought leading to a Caribbean Academic Journal of Young academics and future scholars. The Course will make you estranged from self, but it is geared towards getting you out of your bubble and to consider issues that will make you uncomfortable. The WES explored ways that we can prepare students for the global world. That means moving from the local and turning to the global as we are global citizens. The course surveys the history and philosophy of the Caribbean, the ways in which the Caribbean has emerged as a society in the shadow of colonialism and emergence of neoliberal Globalization. It examines the central ideological currents of twentieth century political thought in the region and covers broad topics such as Colonialism, Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Socialism, Marxism, Feminism, Democratic Socialism and Neo-Conservatism, Neoliberalism, Globalization and Deconstructivism, Critical Race Theory, Strategy and the Foundations of Knowledge and the Hegemony of Faith, Economic Inequality and Poverty. Among the thinkers that will be considered throughout the course are Marcus Garvey, George Padmore, C.L.R. James, Franz Fanon, Homi Bhaba, Walter Rodney, Fidel Castro, Michael Manley, Edward Seaga, Bob Marley Kamau Brathwaite, Edouard Glissant and the Negritude movement generally, Homi Bhaba, Mike Davis, Nelson and Novella Keith, Stephanie Black and Jamaica KinCaid, Garrnett Roper, Rex Nettleford etc. Themes will be drawn from a selection of contemporary newspaper columnists, talk‐show hosts and the ideas behind the major international agencies and institutions, which have shaped post-independence policies. The selection of thinkers and social movements to be examined will vary with each semester. This is Part 1. 1. Introductions 2. (32) Privilege, Power, Position and the Need for Critical Thinking | LinkedIn 3. Caribbean thought, Ideology and Philosophy (Foundations of Knowledge) The Phaedo, Plato & Socrates 4. Orientalism and Occidentalism The class did not complete Part 1 of the Lesson Plan and will therefore continue with Lesson on Part 2. Rev. Renaldo McKenzie is Creator/Host of The Neoliberal Round Podcast, Adjunct Professor at Jamaica Theological Seminary and President of The Neoliberal Corporation. He is also author of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance and is working on a new book: Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered. Renaldo is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University and graduated from University of Pennsylvania. www.anchor.fm/theneoliberal/www.theneoliberal.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/support

In this episode Dr. Jesse Benjamin returns to the podcast. Like our previous conversation with Jesse we're connecting to talk about a recently released book by Walter Rodney, in this case it's Decolonial Marxism: Essays From The Pan-African Revolution, which is a previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on race, colonialism and Marxism. Jesse Benjamin is a scholar, activist, publisher, and board member for the Walter Rodney Foundation, and he is the co-editor of Decolonial Marxism. We talk about how Decolonial Marxism showcases Rodney's range as a theorist and a thinker, as an educator, and as an activist. This collection of essays across a range of topics really provides practical examples of what we think Rodney meant by the term “guerilla intellectual.” It also gives us a glimpse of how Rodney assessed some of the movements and key theorists and leaders of his lifetime, particularly with respect to anticolonial nationalists and socialists on the African continent. Jesse Benjamin offers insights into how he reads Rodney's work in these pieces with respect to pedagogy and epistemology. We also talk about the title Decolonial Marxism and how Rodney takes up the questions of the relevance of Marxism to African peoples and other peoples of the so-called Third World. Jesse also talks about the significance of many of Rodney's interventions in a range of areas and approaches that are really groundbreaking or, at the very least, would've been quite cutting edge during Rodney's lifetime. And all of us marvel at how relevant and insightful Rodney's contributions remain decades after his assassination. We strongly recommend the book for anyone who appreciates Walter Rodney's work and if you're not familiar with Rodney's work it's really essential stuff and we highly recommend it. Verso Books has published this text and they also have editions of 3 other Rodney books all of which are authorized by the Walter Rodney Foundation and Rodney's family. And everything is 40% off over there at Verso for the rest of September. Make sure you get connected with the Walter Rodney Foundation every year they host a Walter Rodney Symposium which is an amazing event. And if you like what we do here we hope you will consider joining up with all of our wonderful patrons in supporting the show. We currently have a drive to add 25 new patrons this month. We only need 10 more to hit our goal for this month, so head on over to patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism and become a patron if you can spare $1 a month or more. Also while you're there we currently have a poll to determine our next study group book, so make sure you vote on that and be on the look out for updates because we will be reconvening our study group in October. Our previous conversations that deal most directly with Walter Rodney's work and life (from most recent to oldest): “Almost As If Their Spirits Are Still There” - David Austin on The 1968 Congress of Black Writers "Our Enemies Know the Power of Books" - Louis Allday and Liberated Texts "The Wealth of Europe is the (Stolen) Wealth of Africa" with Devyn Springer Walter Rodney's Russian Revolution - A View From The Third World with Dr Jesse Benjamin Devyn Springer Discusses Walter Rodney  

For this week's session of #inclasswithcarr, Dr. Greg Carr and Karen ground us in love with specific interventions from ancestors Walter Rodney, Lamont Dozier, James Turner and so much more. "The Groundings with My Brothers." #Knubia #TheRENEWEDNormalJOIN Knubia through Knarrative: https://www.knarrative.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dr. Horne's books ‘The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism' and ‘The Dawning of the Apocalypse' are essential readings in understanding the original sins of empire, the worlds that settler colonialism precluded, and the apokalyptic transformation the world is experiencing today. Our conversation moves across subjects of colonial technology and weaponry, Africa's underdevelopment, and how our material conditions within empire are directly tied to the material conditions across the African continent and diaspora.Dr. Horne also candidly reflects on his own writing process, how he's such a prolific and productive writer and activist, and the stakes of doing rigorous work as a peoples historian. Give it a listen and let us know your thoughts in the comments!Audio snippets heard in the episode:Kwame Ture on The History of Pan AfricanismWalter Rodney - Crisis in the Periphery: Africa and the Caribbean-If you enjoyed the episode, consider subscribing to Dev's Patreon [here] to support the show and get access to extras. Music by the comrade JayOhAye.  

In this conversation we interview Steven Osuna to discuss his piece “Class Suicide: The Black Radical Tradition, Radical Scholarship, and the Neoliberal Turn” from the 2017 collection Futures of Black Radicalism. Steven Osuna is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach. He is a scholar of racism and political economy; globalization, transnationalism, and immigration; and policing and criminalization. Steven was born and raised in Echo Park, Los Angeles and is a son of Mexican and Salvadoran working-class migrants. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Homies Unidos-Los Angeles and a member of the Philippines US Solidarity Organization (PUSO). In this episode Josh interviews Osuna, to discuss the role of the academic who sees their work as in solidarity with movements for the working class, anti-imperialist movements, and struggles for socialism and communism. Osuna talks about the concept of class suicide as put forth by Amilcar Cabral and additionally embodied in the theory and practice of figures like Frantz Fanon and Walter Rodney. Steven also talks about his own experiences as a student of Cedric Robinson. And Steven talks about Robinson's notion of the Black Radical Tradition alongside his own background and interest coming out of the Marxist tradition through learning about the El Salvadoran communist movement and also bringing an interest in liberation theology. Ultimately the conversation is concerned with how someone taking on a petty bourgeois position, and gaining access to the resources available in a place like a university can actually use that position and those resources in material solidarity with concrete working class struggles. Osuna does not mean this to be an abstraction, for him it means participating in working class, anti-imperialist movements and doing so by lending whatever labor those movements need rather than the position that might feel most comfortable to the petty bourgeois academic. Big shout-out to our new supporters on patreon and folks who have continued to support us. Our work is totally funded by our listeners and so we appreciate every dollar folks are able to give to keep this podcast going. If you would like to become a patron you can do so at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism at whatever you can afford, and your support makes this show possible.

In this episode we interview David Austin, and discuss his book Moving Against The System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness. David Austin is the author of Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal and Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution. He has also produced radio documentaries for CBC Ideas on the life and work of both CLR James and Frantz Fanon. A former youth worker and community organizer, he currently teaches in the Humanities, Philosophy and Religion Department at John Abbott College and in the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.  For Moving Against The System Austin provided an introduction and compiled and edited the speeches from the Congress of Black Writers. In this conversation we talk with David Austin about the context of this historic gathering in Montreal, Canada in 1968, amid the rising tide of the Black Power Movement. We ask Austin about the involvement of key figures from the congress including Kwame Ture, Walter Rodney, CLR James, James Forman, and Richard B. Moore among many others. David Austin also shares some great insights from the intellectual and political practice of CLR James, and the proliferation of study circles with which James engaged directly. We ask about some of the contradictions and debates that come up in the Congress around the presence or role of whites, questions of Black Nationalism and socialism, varying analyses around class and race, lessons to be derived from African history, the omission of women from the group of presenters, and some of the generational divides.  Finally, David shares some great reflections on the vibrancy of Black internationalism in the middle of the 20th Century, further highlighting figures like CLR James and Walter Rodney, and discussing Claudia Jones as an example as well. If you're interested in picking up this book, Pluto Press is in the middle of its Radical May Sale so you can grab this or any of their other books for 50% off until May 12th. And if you like the work that we do and are able to support, we definitely need new patrons to continue to sustain our work. You can support the show over on patreon for as little as $1 a month and it's a great way to keep up with the podcast, and also you get notified when new rounds of our study group open up. Several of Austin's works, including Moving Against The System are available also through Canadian publisher Between The Lines.

Christian churches are found on virtually every corner across the African world, from the continent to its expansive diaspora, and their role in the affairs of Africans have long been called into question. How did a foreign religious practice gain so much influence across Africa, and why are millions of Africans devoutly following the religion even at the expense of their own indigenous practices? How do the legacies of enslavement and colonization inform Christian thinking, and how do these legacies influence the neo-colonialism of the African world today? How do other religious or spiritual practices, like Islam or Voudou, fit into this historical arc?Actor, director, and producer Onuora Abuah helps us make sense of all this and much more in this conversation. You can find Onuora's outstanding documentary work on YouTube here, or at KweliTV here. If you enjoyed the episode, consider subscribing to Dev's Patreon here to support the show. Music by the comrade JayOhAye. 

In this episode we talk to Louis Allday, writer, historian and founding editor of Liberated Texts. Liberated Texts is an independent book review website which features works of ongoing relevance that have been forgotten, underappreciated, suppressed or misinterpreted in the cultural mainstream since their release. Louis gets into a more detailed description of the site's purpose and some of the reviews they've featured since its founding just over a year ago. He also talks about the importance of books to anti-imperialist struggle, and ways that the publishing industry has been targeted by counterintelligence and counterinsurgency operations by the likes of the CIA and other related agencies. The inaugural Liberated Texts Collected Reviews volume is now available. Published by Ebb books, we'll include links to where you can order it in the show notes. As we mention in the episode, Liberated Texts is a resource that we use to find interesting subject matter for this podcast. We've previously featured a couple of discussions directly based on reviews from the site, and also featured folks who have gone on to write reviews for Liberated Texts. We'll include some links to those in the show notes as well. As Louis mentions in the episode, Liberated Texts is going to soon begin republishing or publishing books in English for the first time starting in July of this year. Their first book will be an English translation of Ghassan Kanafani's On Zionist Literature. Proceeds from the sales of their first volume of collected reviews will go towards that publishing work. And as always if you like what we do here at Millennials Are Killing Capitalism, the best way that you can support our work is to become a patron of the show. You can do that for as little as $1 a month or a yearly membership of $10.80. If you're not able to do that right now, please do what you can to like, share, retweet and spread the word. Links: Liberated Texts Order Liberated Texts from Bookshop.org Another interview we did which talks about Walter Rodney's time in Tanzania and relationship with Nyerere. Our episode with Bill Rolston and Robbie McVeigh Our episode with Alex Turrall Our previous conversation with Ju-Hyun Park.