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Imperialism Reading Group - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, by Walter Rodney - Week 2
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This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week's thread is here.
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This week, we will be reading the first section, "A General Overview", of Chapter 2: How Africans Developed Before The Coming Of The Europeans - Up To The Fifteenth Century. This is roughly 15 pages.
Next week, we will be reading the second section, "Some Concrete Examples", of Chapter 2: How Africans Developed Before The Coming Of The Europeans - Up To The Fifteenth Century.
Not to diss Michael Hudson's more... analytical writing style, but both Lenin and Rodney are very readable, almost conversational.
Both are witty too. I laughed out loud at "Presumably, the only comment which one can make on that is ‘Amen’ " in the last chapter.
That's what I thought when reading the first chapter. He spelled out historical materialism with such effective plain speak, and I found it inspiring, especially since I know I have a habit of sounding too "academic" whenever I try to talk about it.
Here we read
Lenin can be so entertaining
Absolutely, this is a much more readable text.