Samir Amin
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According to renowned Marxist economist Samir Amin, the recent Arab Spring uprisings comprise an integral part of a massive “second awakening” of the Global South. From the self-immolation in December 2010 of a Tunisian street vendor, to the consequent outcries in Cairo’s Tahrir Square against poverty and corruption, to the ongoing upheavals across the Middle East and Northern Africa, the Arab world is shaping what may become of Western ...
Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world’s first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced the Soviet Union also produced a movement away from capitalism—a long transition that continues today. In seven concise, provocative chapters, Amin deftly examines the trajectory of Russian capitalism, the Bolshevik Revolution, the collapse of the ...
Responding to the need to take a fresh look at world history, hitherto dominated by Eurocentric ideologues and historians in their attempt to justify the nature and character of modern capitalism, Samir Amin looks in this book at the ancient world system and how it has influenced the development of the modern world. He also analyses the origin and nature of modern globalisation and the challenges it presents in achieving socialism.Amin examines the role played by ...
With his usual verve and sharpness Samir Amin examines the factors that brought about the 2008 financial collapse and explores the systemic crisis of capitalism after two decades of neoliberal globalisation. He lays bare the relationship between dominating oligopolies and the globalisation of the world economy. The current crisis, he argues, is a profound crisis of the capitalist system itself, bringing forward an era in which wars, and perhaps revolutions, will ...
In this volume the authors engage in a productive discussion of the history and contemporary dilemmas facing the movement that are variously described as antisystemic, social or popular. The authors believe that these movements. Which have for the past 150 years protested and organized against the multiple injustices of the existing system, are the key locus of social transformation. Immanuel Wallerstein beings by presenting a historical overview of the range and ...
The Liberal Virus Argues That The Ongoing U.S. Project Is A Technique To Dominate The World Through Military Force Has Its Roots In European Liberalism, But Has Developed Certain Features Of Liberal Ideology In A New And Uniquely Dangerous Way. Where European Political Culture Since The French Revolution Has Given A Central Place To Values Of Equality, The American State Has Developed To Serve The Interests Of Capital Alone. This Model Is Now Being Imposed On A ...
The Poor And Forgotten Nations Of The World Can Blame Their Downward Spiral On An Emerging World Order That Samir Amin In This Brilliant Essay Calls The Empire Of Chaos . Comprised Of The United States, Japan, And Germany, Ad Backed By A Weakened Ussr And The Comprador Classes Of The Third World, This Is An Empire That Wirll Stop At Nothing In Its Campaign To Protect And Expand Its Capitalist Markets.
In this original and provocative essay, Samir Amin, the author of a number of pathbreaking studies on the structure of the world economy, takes on one of the great "ideological deformations" of our time: Eurocentrism. Rejecting the dominant Eurocentric view of world history, which narrowly and incorrectly posits a progression from the Greek and Roman classical world to Christian Feudalism and the European capitalist system, Amin presents a sweeping ...