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  • 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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  • Arab world: Roots and insights of the crisis

    by Samir Amin ...
    This book explores the causes and trends of the current crisis of the domination system in the Arab world. The Member President of the World Forum for Alternatives invites its authors —outstanding academics from the region— to present an approach to the dynamics of social movements, the challenges of an alternative regional integration, political Islam, and the always complex relationships between ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $9.79 USD

  • 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

    $18.99 USD

  • Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx's Law of Value

    Monopoly Capital and Marx's Law of Value

    by Samir Amin ...
    The complete collection of Samir Amin's work on Marxism value theoryUnlike 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 ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The future of Maoism

    by Samir Amin, Norman Finkelstein ...
    This book is being republished after a decade, where Samir Amin analyses the role and future of Maoism in China and the implications of its success or failure for the entire Third World. In the frist part, Amin outlines three models of accumulation-socialist, capitalist, and statist - and projects the long-term implications of each for an underdeveloped country. The second part is then devoted to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Liberal Virus

    Permanent War and the Americanization of the World

    by Samir Amin ...
    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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 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

    $9.89 USD

  • Unequal development

    An essay on the social formations of peripheral capitalism

    by Samir Amin, Brian Pearce ...
    Only at the end of the nineteenth century did a worldwide civilization begin to take shape. During the first seventy years of the twentieth century, however, which have been marked by a speeding up of the historical process, the division of the world into « developed » and « underdeveloped » countries has not become less pronounced; on the contrary, the gap between them continues to grow larger ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Obsolescent capitalism

    contemporary politics and global disorder

    by Samir Amin ...
    Capitalism is going senile. Its ambition is now restricted to maintaining the wealth of the wealthy in the world, while the poor, condemned to remain out of the loop, are increasingly demonized as the enemy. This is the theme of Samir Amin's major new book, in which the celebrated analyst presents a synoptic view of capitalism's future. He depicts a world in which NATO and so-called coalitions of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Only People Make Their Own History

    Writings on Capitalism, Imperialism, and Revolution

    by Samir Amin ...
    A collection of Samir Amin’s ten most influential essays of the 21st centuryRadical political economist Samir Amin left behind a cherished oeuvre of Marxist writings. Amin’s intellectual range—from economics to culture—was admirable, and his lessons remain essential. Monthly Review Press is honored to publish this volume, culled from the Monthly Review magazine, of ten of Samir Amin’s most ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Class and nation

    Historically and in the current crisis

    by Samir Amin ...
    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 historical materialism. Indeed, this classification also corresponds to the sequence of my work. Doubtless, concrete analysis of a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD