The Marxist Method

STUDY BLOCK: PHILOSOPHY

STUDY MATERIALS

Marxism and National Liberation, by Walter Rodney

Part One: In this first of a two-part series, Guyanese historian and activist Walter Rodney links Marxism’s relevance in Africa to its methodology, which is particular to time and place

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Part Two: In this second of a two-part series, Guyanese historian and activist Walter Rodney argues that the theory of scientific socialism can and should be used in the African context.

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Dawn: Marxism and National Liberation,

This dossier is an invitation to a dialogue, a conversation about the entangled tradition of Marxism and national liberation – a tradition that emerges out of the October Revolution and that deepens its roots in the anti-colonial conflicts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This is an introduction to a wide-ranging conversation that includes many different revolutionary movements, mostly rooted in the continents of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

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Philosophical Tendencies: Study Cards

A study guide with short definitions of major philosophical trends to help contextualize the Marxist Method and understand how it is distinct from other methods of understanding the world.