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Arghiri Emmanuel, the Free Republic of Congo, and socialism–not capitalism–first

Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on September 11, 2024 by Héritier Ilonga (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) | (Posted Sep 14, 2024)

Lumumba had seen hope in the African diaspora to invest what capital and skills it had in building the Congo. Arghiri Emmanuel made similar recommendations to Antoine Gizenga, Lumumba’s former deputy prime minister who led the rebel socialist Free Republic of Congo from December 12th 1960 to January 1962.
Arghiri Emmanuel, the law of unequal exchange, and the failures of liberation in the DR Congo

Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on September 4, 2024 by Héritier Ilonga (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)) | (Posted Sep 14, 2024)

Writing about Arghiri Emmanuel’s Unequal Exchange, Jairus Banaji noted that it is “the closest Marxist counterpart I can think of to Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth”.