William Sandles

“European workers were perpetuating their own enslavement to the capitalists. They ceased to seek political power and contented themselves with small wage increases, which were usually counterbalanced by increased costs of living. They ceased to be creative and allowed bourgeois cultural decadence to overtake them all. They failed to exercise any independent judgement on the great on the great issues of war and peace, and therefore not only ended up slaughtering not only colonial peoples but themselves.”
― Walter Rodney

“Where imperialists do not find disorder they create it deliberately...They want an excuse for going in...”
― C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

“So long as the population density was low, then human beings viewed as units of labor were far more important than other factors of production such as land. From one end of the continent to the other, it is easy to find examples that African people were conscious that population was in their circumstances the most important factor of production. Among the Bemba, for instance, numbers of subjects were held to be more important than land. Among the Shambala of Tanzania, the same feeling was expressed in the saying, "A king is people.”
― Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

“It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial rule.”
― Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa