Suchergebnisse

1. The Future of Global Polarization -- 2. The Capitalist Economic Management of the Crisis of Contemporary Society -- 3. Reforming International Monetary Management of the Crisis -- 4. The Rise of Ethnicity: A Political Response to Economic Globalization -- 5. What are the Conditions for Relaunching Development in the South? -- 6. The Challenges posed by Globalization: The European Case -- 7. Ideology and Social Thought: The Intelligentsia and the Development Crisis.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; The Political Economy of the Twentieth Century; World Poverty, Pauperization and Capital Accumulation; Political Islam in the Service of Imperialism; The Trajectory of Historical Capitalism and Marxism's Tricontinental Vocation; China 2013; The Return of Fascism in Contemporary Capitalism; Contemporary Imperialism; Reading Capital, Reading Historical Capitalisms; Revolution from North to South; Revolution or Decadence?: Thoughts on the Transition between Modes of Production on the Occasion of the Marx Bicentennial

"In this second volume of his memoirs and final writings based on his life, Samir Amin describes his thoughts and experiences with an array of countries, primarily in the Arab World, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, recounting in detail the stages of his ongoing dialogue over several decades with popular movements struggling for a better future"--

Intro -- Einleitung -- Vorwort -- Teil I -- Das Projekt der Volkssouveränität - die Alternative zur liberalen Globalisierung -- Teil II -- Die bäuerliche Landwirtschaft, der Weg in die Zukunft! -- Teil III -- Blockaden für eine soziale Transformation im Zentrum -- Werkauswahl von Samir Amin -- Der Promedia Verlag im Internet.

Cover -- MODERN IMPERIALISM, MONOPOLY FINANCE CAPITAL, AND MARX'S LAW OF VALUE -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- PART ONE The Law of Worldwide Value -- PART TWO Further Comments on Marx's Capital and Historical Capitalism -- PART THREE Essays on Marx's Value Theory -- Notes -- Index.

"Unlike such obvious forms of oppression as feudalism or slavery, capitalism has been able to survive through its genius for disguising corporate profit imperatives as opportunities for individual human equality and advancement. But it was the genius of Karl Marx, in his masterwork, Capital, to discover the converse law of surplus value: behind the illusion of the democratic, supply-and-demand marketplace, lies the workplace, where people trying to earn a living are required to work way beyond the time it takes to pay their wages. Leave it to the genius of Samir Amin to advance Marx's theories--adding to them the work of radical economists such as Michal Kalecki, Josef Steindl, Paul Baran, and Paul Sweezy--to show how Marxian theory can be adapted to modern economic conditions. Amin extends Marx's analysis to describe a concept of "imperialist rent" derived from the radically unequal wages paid for the same labor done by people in both the Global North and the Global South, the rich nations and the poor ones. This is global oligopolistic capitalism, in which finance capital has come to dominate worldwide production and distribution. Amin also advances Baran and Sweezy's notion of economic surplus to explain a globally monopolized system in which Marx's "law of value" takes the form of a "law of globalized value," generating a super-exploitation of workers in the Global South. Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx's Law of Value offers readers, in one volume, the complete collection of Samir Amin's work on Marxian value theory. The book includes texts from two of Amin's recent works, Three Essays on Marx's Value Theory and The Law of Worldwide Value, which have provoked considerable controversy and correspondence. Here, Amin answers his critics with a series of letters, clarifying and developing his ideas. This work will occupy an important place among the theoretical resources for anyone involved in the study of contemporary Marxian economic and political theory."--

Cover -- Contents -- 1. Russia in the Global System: History or Geography? -- 2. The Czarist Empire versus the Colonial Empires -- 3. Thirty Years of Critique of the Soviet System (1960-1990) -- 4. Lenin and Stalin: Facing the Challenge of the Century -- 5. Out of the Tunnel? -- 6. The Ukrainian Crisis and the Return of Fascism in Contemporary Capitalism -- Assessment and Perspectives -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

An Arab springtime? -- The geostrategic Plan of the U.S. in Trouble -- The Middle East as the hub of the ancient world system -- The decline : the Mameluke state, the miscarriage of the Nahda, and political Islam -- The Leap forward : the Bandung era and Arab popular nationalisms -- The drift of the national popular project towards "re-compradorising".

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 imperialism - an already tottering and overextended system. The Reawakening of the Arab World examines the complex interplay of nations regarding the Arab Spring and its continuing, turbulent seasons. Beginning with Amin's compelling interpretation of the 2011 popular Arab explosions, the book is comprised of five chapters - including a new chapter analyzing U.S. geo-strategy. Amin sees the United States, in an increasingly multi-polar world, as a victim of overreach, caught in its own web of attempts to contain the challenge of China, while confronting the staying power of nations such as Syria and Iran. The growing, deeply-felt need of the Arab people for independent, popular democracy is the cause of their awakening, says Amin. It this awakening to democracy that the United States fears most, since real self-government by independent nations would necessarily mean the end of U.S. empire, and the economic liberalism that has kept it in place. The way forward for the Arab world, Amin argues, is to take on, not just Western imperialism, but also capitalism itself.

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 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 embarking on the long journey 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 is linked to the emancipation of the Asian, African and Latin American peoples

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 any links to reality. "Economics", which is the theory of an imaginary system, then becomes an apologia intended to give legitimacy to the behaviour of the owners of capital. The author pays special attention to the globalization of the law of value. The individual chapters illustrate the author's thesis by focusing on the links between capital and land ownership, between modernity and religious interpretation, and on questions of the global expansion of capitalism, particularly the ways it has evolved in certain countries, in this case Russia and China. This anthology supplements the author's previous work, centred on the rise of the South-his reading of capitalism focusing on its imperialist nature

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Capitalism in the Age of Generalized Monopolies -- 2. The South: Emerging Countries and Lumpen-Development -- 3. China: The Emerging Country -- 4. Implosion of the European System -- 5. The Socialist Alternative: Challenge for the Radical Left -- Conclusion -- Index.

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 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 embarking on the long journey 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 is linked to the emancipation of the Asian, African and Latin American peoples.