In our last episode we talked about Land Back with David Cobb — specifically, we discussed moving the idea of Land Back from a metaphor to a reality, by focusing on a specific case in northern California where the city of Eureka actually gave 200 acres of land back to its original stewards, the Wiyot tribe.
On today’s episode, we’re going to continue the conversation and, in a way, pull back from the specific policy examples of Land Back and look at it as an idea again, specifically, as a revolutionary ideological framework that exists as a part of Marxist thought, a continuation of Marxism-Leninism — what has been called decolonial Marxism.
To do this, we’ve brought on Lakota activist and political educator Sungmanitu Bluebird. Sungmanitu grew up in both Detroit and on Pine Ridge Reservation and is currently based in Michigan’s upper peninsula.
Sungmanitu’s work synthesizes Indigenous knowledge and decolonial Marxist theory and practice. They are a former member of the Red Nation, a mutual aid movement builder, and an organizer with the Chunka Luta Network, a project meant to push decolonial Marxism-Leninism as described by the Guyanese Marxist academic, writer, and educator, Walter Rodney.
Resources:
- Chunka Luta Network
- Land Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper
- Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution by Walter Rodney
- How to Give the Land Back, Shareable
- The Response: Land Back with David Cobb
Credits:
- Hosted, produced, and edited by Robert Raymond
- Presented by Tom Llewellyn
- The Response’s theme music is by Cultivate Beats
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