About the Book
Samir Amin: Pioneer of the Rise of the South
Samir Amin (EgyptZFrance) is a leading intellectual on underdevelopment and the critique of capitalism. Dieter Senghaas (Germany) presents him as a Pioneer of the Rise of the South.
These texts by Samir Amin have been selected for the purpose of encouraging readers to learn more of his work in tracing 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. Hence the impossibility of global capitalism being stabilized in its peripheries has resulted in the long decline of capitalism coinciding with successive waves of active involvement by the peoples of the South to shape a new world, potentially embarked on the long road to socialism. Amin presents this major conflict of the 20th century and identifies the new challenges that the system now faces in the 21st century. His analysis is conducted in terms of historical materialism and should be a useful tool for activists struggling for socialism. Their progress cannot be separated from that of the emancipation of the Asian, African and Latin American peoples.This book includes in Part 1: 1) Biographical Notes; 2) Bibliography. Part 2 offers 4 key texts on the Theory of Historical Capitalism: 3) Theoretical Model of Accumulation and Development in the Contemporary World; 4) Unity and Change in the Ideology of Political Economy; 5) Is Social History Marked by Overdetermination or Underdetermination? 6) Multipolarity in the 20th century. Part 3 on the Contemporary Challenge analyses: 7) The Center Will Not Hold: The Rise and Decline of Liberalism; 8) The Countries of the South Must Take Their Own Independent Initiatives; 9) The Democratic Fraud and the Universalist Alternative; 10) Land Reforms: Desirable Land Tenure Reforms in Africa and Asia; 11) Transnational Capitalism; 12) Africa 50 years of Independence; 13) Aid; 14) Emergence and Lumpen Development, 15) Synthesis.
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