A Revolutionary for Our Time // The Walter Rodney Story

Walter Rodney was a scholar, working class militant, and revolutionary from Guyana. Strongly influenced by Marxist ideas, he remains central to radical Pan-Africanist thought for large numbers of activists today.

Rodney lived through the failed though immensely hopeful -socialist experiments in the 1960s and 1970s, in Tanzania and elsewhere.The book critically considers Rodney’s contribution to Marxist theory and history, his relationship to dependency theory and the contemporary significance of his work in the context of movements and politics today. The first full-length study of Rodneys life, this book is an essential introduction to Rodney’s work.

Leo Zeilig is a writer and researcher. He has written extensively on African politics and history, including books on working-class struggle and the development of revolutionary movements and biographies on some of Africas most important political thinkers and activists. Leo is an editor of theReview of African Political Economythe radical African-studies journal founded by activists and scholars in 1974and a research associate at the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Publish Date: April 5, 2022
• Pages: 254
• Dimensions: 5.9 X 8.9 X 1.1 inches | 1.3 pounds
• Language:English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9781642595819
• BISAC Categories: Biography & Memoir, Politics, Society & Current Affairs, History