From Omowale Pan-African Library, posted by Dwayne Wong (Omowale)
Part three of a discussion on Walter Rodney and Jonestown
Dwayne posted this archival recording to his channel as the third part of a series titled Walter Rodney-Jonestown. He does not speak in it. Watch it on his channel, where the comments are.
This is the third part of an archival discussion titled Walter Rodney-Jonestown. Neither speaker gives a name or is introduced here. Two people are mid conversation about why the Third World accepts authoritarian rule for long periods.
One speaker, who says he has lived in Liberia and in Ghana, asks whether that tolerance is a West African pattern or one shared by Guyana and the West Indies. The other answers for the Caribbean, speaking as a historian. He says plantation workers rebelled over ill treatment as often as over wages, and that people in Jamaica and Guyana today name police brutality first among their grievances. He argues a Third World economy, down to its soil, is shaped by centuries of capitalist and slave-plantation exploitation, and must be dealt with as the principal contradiction before international Marxism.
The recording ends during the answer to a final question. The last stretch of the machine transcript is garbled.
