Walter Rodney claimed developing countries were heirs to uneven
development and ethnic disequilibrium, including continued forms of
oppression from the capitalist countries and their own leaders. In
Guyana, ethnic chauvinism persisted before and after independence
from Britain. Rodney was disturbed by the inability of
intellectuals to share common cause with the masses, thus ensuring
that they would be unable to contribute to uplifting their talents
or participate in the growth of the nation. Guyana and the
Caribbean were subject to sugar and slave traffic that constituted
cheap labor for the plantations and buttressed the
capitalist-industrial system. A significant byproduct of that
system was the master-slave relationship; a no-less iniquitous
consequence was an active racism. Thus, social inequality became
the heritage of Guyanese and Caribbean history. These social evils
have influenced all of the social, economic, and political
institutions in Guyana. Race, class, and color became the
determinants of social value and how the various racial groups
responded to them is both the triumph and the tragedy of Guyanese
nationalism. Rodney belongs in that pantheon of philosophers whose
names adorn the history of the Caribbean and elsewhere. He has
sought to lift the Caribbean people from the victimization of
history and the poverty of material circumstance.
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