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Walter Rodney: Guerilla Intellectual | Robin D.G. Kelley & Kevin Ochieng Okoth

The Verso Podcast

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The Centrality of Work in Marxism

The centrality of the idea of work and the worker in this analysis, right? There's this idea that there would be such like destruction role if you just suddenly violently disappear. And as we see both in how Europe underdeveloped Africa and his work in the Russian Revolution, it's a little bit more complicated than that because the agents of change are not simply the kind of proletarian industrial worker. It's many, many more people that, on whom this process is dependent.

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