Walter Rodney: Marxist Radical, Guerrilla Intellectual, & Pan-African Martyr

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Devyn Springer joins Breht to discuss the life and legacy of Walter Rodney: the renowned Guyanese historian, Caribbean revolutionary, Pan-Africanist thinker, and Marxist martyr.

Find Devyn and his work: https://devynspringer.journoportfolio.com/

Support his work: https://www.patreon.com/Halfatlanta

Check out his podcast: https://groundings.simplecast.com/

Find and Support the Walter Rodney Foundation: http://www.walterrodneyfoundation.org/

Here are the Essays Devyn mentioned in the episode: https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/rodney-walter/index.htm

Outro music 'Hussle & Motivate' by Nipsey Hussle

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.
0:09.7	On today's episode I have on Devon Springer to talk about the life and legacy of the one
0:15.3	and only Walter Rodney.
0:16.9	I really have been a fan of Devon and his work for a very long time and this conversation
0:22.7	was well overdue but I'm glad we finally made it happen.
0:25.9	I just enjoy learning from Devon's amazing speaker, amazing thinker and a really important
0:31.4	sort of Marxist thinker specifically.
0:34.2	So we really appreciate having Devon on and if you like what we do here at RevLeft Radio
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1:00.9	leave us a nice review on iTunes.
1:03.1	We do get waves sometimes of reactionaries kind of shitting on us in the review sections
1:10.0	of iTunes so every good review helps balance that out and sort of counterbalance to those
1:16.8	shitty half-assed reactionary reviews we get.
1:20.6	So yeah but without further ado let's get into this wonderful conversation with Devon
1:24.1	Springer on the life and legacy of the revolutionary and black liberationist Walter Rudd.
1:31.1	Enjoy.
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