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moved from historiography critiques pre event to post event historiography

History of the Guyanese Working People shows Rodney's chops at constructing a Marxist analysis. This book shows the chops of Rodney as a historiographer. And he is compelling in this aspect.

My last book that I have access to written by Walter Rodney and I am interested to see where this particular book takes me. As someone who really has not looked at Russian history but only US and USSR interactions in the Cold War.

Grinding this out during the day at school. Recently got to the part talking about the companies. Unilever is a colonizer

Starting to get to the action of the book. Plans within plans are happening

A slow read right now. Can only read when I am super focused

Crunching out a lot of this during May Day. Applying my graduate school reading skills. Skimming a lot of it

Seem to be ramping to the most depressing part of the book

Started reading this on my kindle while on a trip. Many of the introductory arguments are similar to that in the Decolonial Marxism essays published posthumously.

The breakdown of the term "Underdeveloped" vs the popular term "developing" and changes the perspective on development.

He also provides a keen definition of development I felt was missing in my policy education.

In a very crunchy section of the book so reading is slow