Samir Amin: 20 books
Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx's Law of Value
Monopoly Capital and Marx's Law of Value
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
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...
Only People Make Their Own History
Writings on Capitalism, Imperialism, and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
A collection of Samir Amin’s ten most influential essays of the 21st century
Radical 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...
by Samir Amin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
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...
Samir Amin
Pioneer of the Rise of the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
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...
The Reawakening of the Arab World
Challenge and Change in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
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...
The Long Revolution of the Global South
Toward a New Anti-Imperialist International
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
The final writings of Samir Amin—a mix of personal experiences and theoretical analysis of global challenges and movements
In 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...
Beyond US Hegemony
Assessing the Prospects for a Multipolar World
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
In this major new work - the result of a lifetime of intellectual engagement - one of the developing world's most famous thinkers reflects on the times we live in. He argues that US hegemony has reached a dangerous new level under George Bush Jr, and that the US President's hubristic militarism will...
Europe and the Arab World
Patterns and Prospects for the New Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Europe and the Arab World is a wide-ranging assessment of the prospects for a new relationship between Europe and the Arab world in the coming years. Samir Amin and Ali El Kenz take as their starting point the significantly shifting balance of political forces within the various Arab countries, including...
Capitalism in the Age of Globalization
The Management of Contemporary Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
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...
by Samir Amin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
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 Liberal Virus
Permanent War and the Americanization of the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
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...
by Hosea Jaffe, Samir Amin
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Spanning more than two thousand years of African history, from the African Iron Age to the collapse of colonialism and the beginnings of independence, Hosea Jaffe's magisterial work remains one of the few to do full justice to the continent's complex and diverse past.
The great strength of...
by Samir Amin
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
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.
October 1917 Revolution
A Century Later
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
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...
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