Understanding why liberation matters is one thing. Beginning to develop an ethos and lens is certainly the beginning. Knowing how to move however, how to actually build and sustain revolutionary practice in your own life and community is another. I’m not going to pretend that it isn’t difficult, to become an architect of possibility in a world that continues to show us that it is hell bent on oppression, imperialism and destruction. While it is not easy, it is not impossible!!
That gap between inspiration and action is where many of us get stuck. This interview with D. Musa Springer on the life and work of Walter Rodney , I find, to be an incredibly useful place to start closing it. Rodney was a Guyanese historian, organizer, and political economist whose entire life was a model of what it looks like to refuse that gap, to insist that theory and practice are inseparable, that knowledge not rooted in the conditions and struggles of real people is not knowledge worth having.
