Walter Rodney, born in Guyana on 22nd of march in 1942, Pan-African, Marxist intellectual who was assassinated by the Guyanese government in 1980 at 38 years old.
Rodney attended the University College of the West Indies in 1960 and was awarded a first class honors degree in History in 1963. He later earned a PhD in African History in 1966 at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, England, at the age of 24.
Rodney traveled extensively and became well-known as an activist, scholar, and formidable orator. He taught at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania from 1966-67 and 1969-1974, and in 1968 at his alma mater University of the West Indies.
On October 15th, 1968, the government of Jamaica declared Rodney a “persona non grata” and banned him from the country. Following his dismissal by the University of the West Indies, students and poor people in West Kingston protested, leading to the “Rodney Riots”, which caused six deaths and millions of dollars in damages.
In 1972, Rodney published “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”. Historian Melissa Turner describes the work this way: “A brutal critique of long-standing and persistent exploitation of Africa by Western powers, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa remains a powerful, popular, and controversial work in which Rodney argued that the early period of African contact with Europe, including the slave trade, sowed the seeds for continued African economic underdevelopment and had dramatically negative social and political consequences as well. He argued that, while the roots of Africa’s ailments rested with intentional underdevelopment and exploitation under European capitalist and colonial systems, the only way for true liberation to take place was for Africans to become cognizant of their own complicity in this exploitation and to take back the power they gave up to the exploiters.”
On June 13th, 1980, Rodney was killed in Georgetown, Guyana via a bomb given to him by Gregory Smith, a sergeant in the Guyana Defence Force, one month after returning Zimbabwe. In 2015, a “Commission of Inquiry” in Guyana that the country’s then president, Linden Forbes Burnham, was complicit in his murder.
“If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be through revolutionary means.”
Walter Rodney
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Decolonial Marxism Essays From The Pan African Revolution
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the influence of the ham sandwich race is waningI just got banned from this thread in /c/[email protected] for being a Hexbear. Modlog reason: “Hexbear user in tankiejerk, waddaya expect?”
Meanwhile, there’s like 20 of y’all in that thread and are left untouched. I guess that makes me the one true leftist, the only one who isn’t a liberal.
Here is the evil authoritarian statement I made that got me banned:
Spoiler
Specifically what this person doesn’t understand and needs to learn about is Hegemony.
Like others have said, they don’t have a materialist understanding of either the world or the politics of who they’re calling “tankies” so they are relying on idealism (vibes) to ironically and mistakenly accuse others of idealism. Basically what they’re saying is “My conclusion based on nothing but vibes is that these other people are wrong because they came to their conclusions based on nothing but vibes.” What this person doesn’t know but that the people they’re disparaging do know, is that the current world order is undeniably dominated by a hegemonic super power: the US. “Tankies” don’t single out the US as the primary evil in the world due to some reverse-psychology American Exceptionalism, but because they recognize the role the US plays as world Hegemon.
I DESERVE TO LIVE IN THE HOLE
THE BIG HOLE
Thinking of becoming bulimic
Please engage. Please reply.
Should I tell my friend of three years and my only friend in this city that I have panic attacks and crying attacks when she doesn’t reply to my texts for more than 24 hours. Like if she has better things to do than answer me for a whole 24 hours that’s nice for her, but I feel so goddamn fucking awful you wouldn’t even believe it. I wish I had friends who made me a priority just fucking once. Like if we say we might meet on Tuesday on Saturday, I don’t want to have to wait until Monday to actually know if I’ve got something to look forward to. I understand she’s much more busy than me, but if she doesn’t have the time for me when I’m feeling this low I don’t know if I can actually take it. I can’t live if this is the only type of friendship I have.
Also if I have a group chat of friends who now all live far away and I ask them if we can talk on the phone over the weekend and they then don’t make that great of an effort to actually make it happen, is it alright to complain about this? Should I tell them just how awful and terrible I feel about this, knowing that they are busy and do sometimes make the effort and it’s also kinda my fault for not making it more clear when on the weekend I’m free
Just bit my hand so hard I pierced the skin.
You can complain about this and tell your friends you appreciate a speedier reply. The social curtesy of quick or slow replies is way different from people my age, younger than 30 seems to want a response very soon. I’m used to >24 hours if friends are busy. Keep in mind, that’s me and the social milieu I grew up in - you might very reasonably expect quicker replies.
You are allowed to call them on the weekend and to make plans and invite, you do not have to wait for them to call you. You’re already texting first which is great!
mental health stuff, dont click if you don't want to hear it
I would characterize this kind of intense pain youre in from not receiving texts and calls and not knowing when plans are firm as something like anxiety. I might look up something like “favorite person bpd” and see if you vibe with any of that.
Wanting people to make a priority to contact you is valid. But the intense pain youre descriving indicates something besides more than is usual. The pain is intense enough it has led you to self-harm - that is an important thing you wrote and is part of why I think you’d benefit from checking out those resources. If you can afford it, I’d also suggest a therapist you might vibe with (especially looking for DBT, its a type of therapy).
Plastic Little (プラスチックリトル, Purasuchikku Ritoru) is a Japanese original video animation film and a manga series created by Satoshi Urushihara. It was released in North America on VHS by ADV Films in July 1994. It was released on DVD in February 2002. Along with Burn-Up Excess, it is one of two ADV titles to include the trademarked “Jiggle Counter”.
Absolutely filthy. My copy’s in the mail.
raw ABS plastic is technically a legal Lego piece
sup megathread I’m a wienie uwu
The Mechanicus cult in 40K is very bloody and over the top villainous, but the real world version where vulnerable people start worshipping Chat GPT is much more grimdark.
Come to think of it, the modern AI boom puts a new spin on the classic TTRPG Paranoia as well. If you don’t know, that one’s about an over the top comedy dystopia run by The Computer (who is always watching and is your friend), but now I’m imagining The Computer as an LLM instance that some techbro idiots plugged all of the city’s infrastructure into.
It’s fascinating how techies seem to glorify so many obvious monsters in fiction, like that one Zizian cult that basically worshiped a mass murder machine that was hell-bent on the torment of humanity for the collection of data.
listening to AM’s monologue from I Have No Mouth and shouting “BASED” so loud it shatters the windows of the open office WeWork space I sit in for 16 hours a day
In the red and asleep, and I still can’t catch this Aipom in this Silver playthrough. I burned through 9 Pokeballs and 3 Greatballs. Fearow may be my favorite Pokemon, but it sucks to go through numerous Spearows just so I can run a bad Pokemon that I think is cute.
Update: I finally got one.
I saw my first shiny Pokemon (outside Red Gyarados) ever like 4 days ago on Thursday. It was a shiny Weedle in Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu. I do like Beedrill so I guess that’s cool.
Watching/rewatching Time Rogers/Action Button videos I either didn’t watch or stopped watching and realizing that it’s like 80% him talking about himself and how many times he’s played the game and how much other related media he’s consumed, 10% game summary, and 10% actual analysis/insights.
Edit: it’s 85% talking about himself, 5% summary/describing the game, 10% analysis/insights.
Borderline slop. Which I guess is fine as like time-waster videos go, but I’m so burnt out on stuff that exists on the internet merely to take up time and accrue money.
And I don’t really like the established art-critics of games like Bulletpoints or whatever that much. There’s some good stuff there too, but it’s not like a good marxist analysis you might see on here or some blog that gets shared because it’s moving and insightful. You get people who I believe and seem to play games totally different from me talking about them like they’re either productivity software or you get the opposite where the game or game experience is treated as the personal diaries of the (video) reviewer that’s so hyper-specific to their own lives that I’m basically just watching a video about a person describe their own life. Which again, isn’t bad but it’s not the gaming content I’m looking for.
You also get sorta documentary/research journalism stuff that talks about the production and the people who made the games semi-frequently and that can be really good too. Fine settling for that most of the time, but that’s sorta’ dancing around actually talking about the game too.
Online forums are just people talking about talking about art. So they’ll ask why there are so few RPGs on N64, if 30FPS is acceptable, top horror games, etc. But they’re still not actually talking about the thing in itself: gaming. It’s honestly weird how resistant people are to talking about art in general, but especially video games.
I just went over an artist i followed for a while, and it’s clear we’ve long entered the “this is my fetish” style of art, and it’s unnerving.
like, what was it that i liked about their art in the first place, cause this is really really terrible.
why coffee taste like hot dog
Someone may have used the coffee pot to cook hotdogs
that’s an unusual taste for coffee
