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

The Verso Podcast

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The Difficulty of Engaging in a Revolution in the Global South

I'm wondering what we are to do in terms of how we conceive of ourselves as internationalists if we indeed do so. And it's a huge question that I myself am still trying to grapple with because the things are, you know, Walter Rodney, but also including who you mentioned Samir Amin,. What does it look like today to kind of do to engage in a revolutionary process in the global south? The difficulty is one can also fall into the trap of an empty internationalism which I also think has existed before in kind of the global north. So it's the difficulty of taking seriously the fact that these states exist and they do exist and we kind of have to somehow manage to work

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