Dig: Worldmaking after Empire w/ Adom Getachew
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🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Featuring Adom Getachew on the story of how decolonization struggles across the Black Atlantic tried to not only cast off European rule but also to remake the entire world system. An October 2019 episode from the archives.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com and by Hey Market Books |
| 0:06.2 | Which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you |
| 0:11.7 | When that you might like is a revolutionary for our time the Walter Rodney story by Leo Zelig |
| 0:18.9 | Walter Rodney was a scholar working class militant and revolutionary from Guyana |
| 0:24.9 | Strongly influenced by Marxist ideas and having lived through numerous socialist experiments in the 1960s and 1970s |
| 0:32.9 | He remains central to radical pan-Africanist thought in this book the first full-length study of Rodney's life |
| 0:40.3 | Leo Zelig critically considers Rodney's contribution to Marxist theory and history and the contemporary significance of his work |
| 0:49.2 | As Olufemi-Taiwa puts it through exacting research, exacting presentation and careful analysis |
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| 1:37.2 | This week's rerun is my interview with Adon Gattacho on her book World Making After Empire the rise and fall of self-determination |
| 1:45.3 | It's from nearly three years ago October 2019 |
| 1:49.0 | I'm posting it today because it's August and we're on part-time summer schedule for two months |
| 1:54.1 | But I'm also posting it today because this episode pairs really well with last week's interview with Kojo Karam on his book |
| 2:02.2 | Uncommon Wealth Britain and the Aftermath of Empire |
| 2:06.3 | Karam exposes colonialism as a vast system of organized plunder and tells the story of decolonization as not just a struggle for |
| 2:14.4 | independence, but a struggle to remake the entire capitalist world system |
| 2:18.9 | So that newly sovereign nations on its periphery could exercise real economic power |
| 2:25.6 | That decolonial dream was crushed by the neoliberal reaction which left new nations |
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