Samir Amin's ambitious new book argues that the ongoing American project 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, and is now exporting this model throughout the world. American imperialism, Amin argues, will be far more barbaric than earlier forms of imperialism, pillaging...
Samir Amin's ambitious new book argues that the ongoing American project to dominate the world through military force has its roots in European lib...
The World We Wish to See presents a sweeping view of twentieth-century political history and a stirring appeal to take political culture seriously. Samir Amin offers a provocative analysis of resistance to capitalism and imperialism and calls for a new politics of opposition. Capitalism is a global system, so ultimately any successful challenge to it must be organized on the same level: an internationalism of peoples.
Throughout the twentieth century the socialist and communist internationals, national liberation movements, and great revolutions have presented challenges to...
The World We Wish to See presents a sweeping view of twentieth-century political history and a stirring appeal to take political culture ser...
In this extensively revised and expanded edition of the 1978 classic, Samir Amin suggests new approaches to Marxian analysis of the crisis of the late capitalist system of generalized, financialized, and globalized oligopolies following on the financial collapse of 2008.
Considering that Marx s Capital written before the emergence of imperialism as a decisive factor in capitalist accumulation could provide no explanation for the persistent underdevelopment of the countries of the global South, Amin advances several important theoretical concepts extending traditional Marxian views of...
In this extensively revised and expanded edition of the 1978 classic, Samir Amin suggests new approaches to Marxian analysis of the crisis of the l...
The factors that brought about the 2008 financial collapse are examined in this analysis that explores the systemic crisis of capitalism after two decades of neoliberal globalization. Samir Amin lays bare the relationship between dominating oligopolies and the globalization of the world economy and argues that the current crisis is a profound crisis of the capitalist system itself, bringing forward an era in which warsand perhaps revolutionswill once again shake the world. The author examines the threat to the plutocracies of the United States, Europe, and Japan from decisions of recent G20...
The factors that brought about the 2008 financial collapse are examined in this analysis that explores the systemic crisis of capitalism after two dec...
Renowned political economist Samir Amin, engaged in a unique lifelong effort both to narrate and affect the human condition on a global scale, brings his analysis up to the present--the world of 2013. The key events of our times--financial crisis, the emerging nations, globalization, financialization, political Islam, Euro-zone implosion--are related in a coherent, historically based, account. Changes in contemporary capitalism require an updating of definitions and analysis of social classes, class struggles, political parties, social movements and the ideological forms in which they express...
Renowned political economist Samir Amin, engaged in a unique lifelong effort both to narrate and affect the human condition on a global scale, brings ...
Renowned political economist Samir Amin, engaged in a unique lifelong effort both to narrate and affect the human condition on a global scale, brings his analysis up to the present the world of 2013. The key events of our times financial crisis, the emerging nations, globalization, financialization, political Islam, Euro zone implosion are related in a coherent, historically based, account.Changes in contemporary capitalism require an updating of definitions and analysis of social classes, class struggles, political parties, social movements and the ideological forms in which they express...
Renowned political economist Samir Amin, engaged in a unique lifelong effort both to narrate and affect the human condition on a global scale, brings ...
In this slim, insightful volume, noted economist Samir Amin returns to the core of Marxian economic thought: Marx s theory of value. He begins with the same question that Marx, along with the classical economists, once pondered: how can every commodity, including labor power, sell at its value on the market and still produce a profit for owners of capital? While bourgeois economists attempted to answer this question according to the categories of capitalist society itself, Marx sought to peer through the surface phenomena of market transactions and develop his theory by examining the actual...
In this slim, insightful volume, noted economist Samir Amin returns to the core of Marxian economic thought: Marx s theory of value. He begins with th...