Rodney Walter

Walter Rodney (1942–1980) was a Guyanese historian, political activist, and theorist whose intellectual work is primarily known through How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972).

Within the vault, Rodney functions as a decolonial historiographical connector: his formulation of the struggle-versus-accommodation dialectic — specifically the argument that in the daily lives of working people, accommodation and resistance coexist but resistance is ultimately the decisive side of the contradiction —...

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