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  • The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism

    by Samir Amin ...
    Renowned political economist Samir Amin, engaged in a uniquelifelong effort both to narrate and affect the human condition on aglobal scale, brings his analysis up to the present—the world of2013. The key events of our times—financial crisis, the emergingnations, globalization, financialization, political Islam, Eurozoneimplosion—are related in a coherent, historically based, account. Changes in ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

    by Samir Amin ...
    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 has also produced a movement away from capitalism – a long transition that continues even today. In seven concise, provocative chapters, Amin deftly examines the trajectory of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Global history

    A view from the South

    by Samir Amin ...
    This book brings together various contributions I have written for the elaboration of a global history.They have been published in French and English in different periodicals and on different dates, some of them a while ago.1 Their collection into one volume highlights their originality. First, because this enables the reader to identify precisely the theses that I put forward in my early critique ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Eurocentrism

    by Samir Amin ...
    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: Eurocentrism. Rejecting the dominant Eurocentric view of world history, which narrowly and incorrectly posits a progression from the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Delinking

    Towards a polycentric world

    by Samir Amin ...
    Is it possible for the Third World to escape from the constraints imposed by the world's economic system? Does not attempting to do so lead inevitably to the stagnation of barrackroom socialism? What room for manoeuvre do Third World states have? Are they condemned to dependence? These are some of the questions Samir Amin confronts in this major development of his theoretical ideas. He argues that ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Capitalism in the age of globalization

    The management of contemporary society

    by Samir Amin ...
    Samir Amin remains one of the world's most influential thinkers about the changing nature of North-South relations in the development of contemporary capitalism. In this highly prescient book, originally published in 1997, he provides a powerful analysis of the new unilateral capitalist era following the collapse of the Soviet model, and the apparent triumph of the market and globalization. Amin's ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Three Essays on Marx’s Value Theory

    by Samir Amin ...
    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 ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Long Revolution of the Global South

    Toward a New Anti-Imperialist International

    by Samir Amin ...
    The final writings of Samir Amin—a mix of personal experiences and theoretical analysis of global challenges and movementsIn this second volume of his memoirs, Amin takes us on a journey to a dizzying array of countries, recounting the stages of his ongoing dialogue over several decades with popular movements struggling for a better future. As in his many works over the years, The Long Revolution ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The implosion of contemporary capitalism

    by Samir Amin ...
    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. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • October 1917 Revolution

    A Century Later

    by Samir Amin ...
    Great revolutions make history. Conservative resistance and counter-revolutions only delay their progress. The French revolution invented modern politics and democracy, the Russian revolution paved the way for the socialist transition, while the Chinese revolution connected the emancipation of those peoples oppressed by imperialism with the path to socialism. These revolutions are great precisely ... Read more

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  • Imperialism and unequal development

    by Samir Amin ...
    This collection of essays elaborates and applies the ideas developed by the author in Accumulation on a World Scale (MR Press, 1974) and Unequal Development (MR Press, 1976). Marxism, according to Samir Amin, « is neither an economic theory, a sociological theory, nor a philosophy, but the social science of revolutionary socialist praxis. » It follows that the renaissance of Marxism that has ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Samir Amin

    Pioneer of the Rise of the South

    by Samir Amin ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    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 hope to catch up with the social organization prevailing in the dominant centres and the impossibility of global capitalism becoming ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD