Throughout U.S. history, class has been bound up with other forms of oppression—so the disenfranchisement of Black men after Reconstruction decisively shifted class relations.
Building on the concept of the "Long March Through the Institutions," Brazil's landless workers movement, continuing to organize after 40 years of struggle, offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted.
The coronavirus remains new enough and its long-term effects unpredictable enough that measuring the threat posed by an infection is a thorny problem. How people perceive risk is subjective.
Rodney lays out an invaluable concept: that underdevelopment expresses a relationship of exploitation. It implies not lack of development but the existence and results of suppression, oppression and exploitation.
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