(PDF) Issue 9: DOUGLAS ROGERS: A Silenced Voice of Kenyan Socialism
Issue 9: Editorial
The current issue of The Kenya Socialist is being published at a time when capitalist crises both locally and globally are intensifying. These crises are not accidental but are rooted in the structural contradictions of capitalism itself manifested through intensified...
Capitalism and its Economic Crisis: What is the Alternative?
Kenya has practised capitalism from the time the European imperialists ventured into this territory. The foreigners were warmly welcomed as it is the culture of Africans. All the same, the said foreigners disrespected this welcome and conquered territory -- although...
Douglas Rogers and Kenyan Politics
In 1977 when my father, Douglas Rogers, wanted to illustrate how neo-colonialism asserted control over Africa, he turned to the example of Kenya. In a first article, he discussed how the Kenyan economy was controlled by foreign companies in much the same way as had...
Frantz Fanon and the African Revolution: Pan-Africanism and the Sahelian Break
IntroductionFrantz Fanon’s work has profoundly influenced anticolonial thought across the Global South and continues to resonate within contemporary struggles for liberation as they evolve. Yet, both in academic discourse and within certain progressive circles,...
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(PDF) Issue 9: DOUGLAS ROGERS: A Silenced Voice of Kenyan Socialism
Issue 9: Editorial
The current issue of The Kenya Socialist is being published at a time when capitalist crises both locally and globally are intensifying. These crises are not accidental but are rooted in the structural contradictions of capitalism itself manifested through intensified...
Capitalism and its Economic Crisis: What is the Alternative?
Kenya has practised capitalism from the time the European imperialists ventured into this territory. The foreigners were warmly welcomed as it is the culture of Africans. All the same, the said foreigners disrespected this welcome and conquered territory -- although...
Douglas Rogers and Kenyan Politics
In 1977 when my father, Douglas Rogers, wanted to illustrate how neo-colonialism asserted control over Africa, he turned to the example of Kenya. In a first article, he discussed how the Kenyan economy was controlled by foreign companies in much the same way as had...
Frantz Fanon and the African Revolution: Pan-Africanism and the Sahelian Break
IntroductionFrantz Fanon’s work has profoundly influenced anticolonial thought across the Global South and continues to resonate within contemporary struggles for liberation as they evolve. Yet, both in academic discourse and within certain progressive circles,...
Reflections on the Eve of the Revolution, 2025
The Eve of the Revolution has new meaning as we prepare to resist in a critical battle against imperialism in the Western Hemisphere. As 2025 ends and a new year begins, a desperate belligerent US imperialism imposes a naval blockade that threatens the sovereignty of...
A Marxist Curriculum for Understanding Capitalism in Kenya
Ukombozi Library and the Marx Memorial Library held a study course in 2025 on ‘Introduction to Marxist Economics – A Kenyan Perspective’, a sixpart curriculum designed to situate classical Marxist political economy within Kenya’s historical and contemporary realities...
Editorial
The eighth issue of The Kenya Socialist comes at a time when the factions of the ruling class are uniting in an effort to solidify their power. Some of these factions, which over the years have used progressive rhetoric to deceive the masses into supporting them, can...
THE KENYA POLICE; A look at Imperialist Influence
Over the couple of months, Haiti has dominated local and global news for insecurity reasons. The insecurity and other related challenges have increased especially after the assassination of country’s president Jovenel Moïse on 7th July 2021. Heavily armed gangs and...
Of Liberalism and the Pitfalls of Radical Activism
"Liberalism stems from petty-bourgeois selfishness, it places personal interests first and the interests of the revolution second, and this gives rise to ideological, political, and organizational liberalism." ~ Mao Tse-TungLiving and dying within this capitalist...
Historical Perspective on the Resistance of Gen Z in Kenya
PART 1: The StoryVolcanoes do not erupt suddenly, although they seem to do so. It may take years or decades of underground activities which build up the pressure to push lava out of the ground. In the same way, social ‘eruptions’ do not happen without years and...