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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...
Is there anything inherently wrong with Africa that the continent has remained immobilized in a milieu characterized with rapid transformation in other parts of the globe?Is Africa caught in a web of conflicting ideologies of development from which it cannot extricate...
A reader once remarked that my works deal with three sets of problems : (a) concrete analyses of the situation of third world countries (Egypt, the Maghreb, West Africa, the Congo), (b) a theory of capitalist accumulation on a world scale, and (c) an interpretation of...
This book focuses on a central concept that “Theory is History”, as the theory of capitalism can only be formulated on the basis of an analysis of its history. In contrast, bourgeois thinking replaces the analysis of historical capitalism with an abstract theory without...
These texts by Samir Amin have been selected for the purpose of encouraging readers to learn more about his work to trace the historical trajectory of capitalism, which has consistently produced polarization at the global level. Thus the dominated peripheries cannot...
Les réflexions réunies dans cet ouvrage s'inscrivent contre l'air du temps façonné par la propagande du clergé médiatique au service de l'aristocratie financière. L'Empire des Tsars, l'Union soviétique, la nouvelle Russie sont inlassablement présentés comme d'horribles...
While the economic and historical literature on the English-speaking countries of West Africa is comparatively rich, little comparable study and analysis have been accomplished for the French-speaking portion. This study does not deal with the whole geographical region,...
Samir Amin is an Egyptian national and one of the leading scholars in the world in this era. He has written many books particularly on the subject of political economy, twelve of these having been translated from the French into English. He is currently Director of the...
Marx is not a philosopher, a historian, an economist, a political scientist, or a sociologist. He is not even a scholar of the first rank in any of those disciplines. Nor even a talented professor who prepared a good multidisciplinary dish cooked with all these...
With great clarity, this updated edition explains the complex changes of the late-20th and early-21st centuries, including the transformations in Eastern Europe and in the world economy, the growth of capitalism in China anddespite the West riding on the crest of new...
Amin defends Marx's theory of value against its critics and also tackles some of its trickier aspects. He examines the relationship between Marx's abstract concepts - such as « socially necessary labor time » - and how they are manifested in the capitalist marketplace...
In this volume the authors engage in a provocative discussion of the history and contemporary dilemmas facing the movements that are variously described as antisystemic, social or popular. The authors believe that these movements, which have for the past 150 years...
TOWARDS THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY a sickness struck the world. Not everyone died, but all suffered from it. The virus which caused the epidemic was called the « liberal virus. » This virus made its appearance around the sixteenth century within the triangle...
Un point fait aujourd'hui largement débat : faut-il soutenir ou au contraire rejeter la souveraineté nationale? Or pour l'auteur, cette question de stratégie fait l'objet de graves malentendus, tant que son contenu de classe n'est pas identifié. En effet, dans les...
Samir Amin, one of the most influential economists today, has produced another groundbreaking work. Spectres of Capitalism cuts through the current intellectual fashions that assume a global capitalist triumph, taking the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Marx and...
Since its first publication twenty years ago, Eurocentrism has become a classic of radical thought. Written by one of the world's foremost political economists, this original and provocative essay takes on one of the great « ideological deformations » of our time :...
Samir Amin (1931-2018) a toujours associé réflexion théorique et action militante. Raison pour laquelle ses analyses des défis auxquels les peuples sont confrontés ont eu une influence reconnue. Les étapes de son dialogue permanent avec les mouvements populaires en...
Les grandes révolutions font l'histoire; les résistances conservatrices et les contre-révolutions ne font qu'en retarder le cours. La Révolution française a inventé la politique et la démocratie modernes, la Révolution russe a ouvert la voie à la transition socialiste,...
La crise financière de septembre 2008 a été le produit inévitable de la longue crise systémique du capitalisme des oligopoles généralisés amorcée dans les années 1970. En réponse à cette crise, le capital a réagi par des politiques de concentration qui ont imposé la...
Ce volume réunit trois conférences de grande qualité délivrées par des universitaires de renommée. Ces conférences ont constitué un des moments forts de la 10e Assemblée générale du CODESRIA qui s'est tenue en 2002, à Kampala, Ouganda. Les conférences, qui sont parties...
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