Samir Amin: Pioneer of the Rise of the South: 16 (SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice)

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A life looking forward, Memoirs of an independent Marxist; Zed, London Capitalism in the Age of Globalisation, Zed, London Obsolescent capitalism, Zed Empire of Chaos New York: Delinking, towards a polycentric world, Zed, London Imperialism and Unequal Development New York: Monthly Review Press, London: The Maghreb in the Modern World: Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco London: La crisis, salir de la crisis del capitalismo o salir del capitalismo en crisis; El Viejo Topo, Barcelone, Critica de nuestro tiempo.

Capitalismo y sistema mundo, Lafarga edicions, Barcelona, Publications on Samir Amin. Publier les commentaires Atom. On this author On this book. 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: Part 2 offers 4 key texts on the Theory of Historical Capitalism: He studied in Paris with degrees in political science ,statistics and economics His PhD thesis was on: The origins of underdevelopment - capitalist accumulation on a world scale but retitled The structural effects of the international integration of precapitalist economies.

A theoretical study of the mechanism which creates so-called underdeveloped economies. There are also some people of the old regime who joined movement. They felt the movement was so strong and had to move in. They are not really influential in the movement. There are also the salafists. The salafists are as bad as Muslim Brothers, they were eliminated by the Muslim Brothers because Muslim Brothers wanted to have all the positions only to them. This is why the salafists also moved into the movement. They have some influence among some sections of the middle classes and among those very poor who have very little understanding of politics, particularly in the rural area.

Not more than that. To have the movement getting together with minimum common program, there are discussions among various partners, particularly with the organizations of the youth. There is a real need for a common program able to meet the immediate challenges; it is not a program for socialism, but a program to start moving out of the trap of neoliberalization by restoring the power of the state, and starting to move out of the stuck of the US, Israel, and Gulf countries and opening new relations with other partners, particularly with China, with Russia, with India, with South Africa, so that we can start having independent policies and therefore reducing the influence of the US, of Israel, and of the Gulf countries.

These reforms are not socialism, but they are on the long road to socialism, they are socialist-minded. For the farmers, it includes the protection of the ownership of the land by small peasants. The second direction is the national question, the dignity. They want a government which represents Egypt with dignity.

On that ground China has a big responsibility, It would be great if some people in China say frankly: Such a declaration would have a tremendous echo in Egypt. There are slogans on the streets of Cairo saying: This is called a national independent policy, in order to be able to develop a sovereign Egyptian project. The third dimension is the democratic one. On that point, there are various views. There are people in favor of normal bourgeois pluri party elections. Democracy implies the changes in attitudes, in changes in common relations of people in daily life.

I think they are right. In Egypt, the young people consider democracy as the freedom of behaving in daily relations, particularly between boys and girls, men and women. Maybe, the majority of Egyptian people are believers in God, but they do not accept that because they are believers they should obey the orders of Muslim Brothers, forbidding them to have free lives. This is the way they understand democracy.

It is a parliament which brings together people send by the organizations of the movement, by the trade unions, by the women organizations, by the youth organizations, by the various parties. This is the true parliament, more than a so-called elected parliament in which the distribution of representation is so unequal and biased.

You can call that not a socialist program, but a national, democratic, sovereign, and progressive program. What role did the US play in the change? The US supported Mubarak to the last minute.

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But when the leaders of the army took action to deposit Morsi, then the US accepted it, they understood. Of course they exercise strong pressure on the new government to continue neoliberal policy, submitting to IMF and the World Bank. But there are pressures; those working with the management of finance are spontaneously conservative and pro neoliberalism.

So there is a need for a struggle against them. On one hand, we can say the US accepted and supported the army and the new government, but on the other hand, they tried to put pressure to bring back reactionary political Islam, not through the Muslim Brotherhood but through the salafist.

This is the plan of the US, which is not to help Egypt out of the crisis, but to use the crisis to destroy more. Because Egypt is considered by them a dangerous country, it has a long past, it has been the first emerging country since the beginning of the 19 th century, and one of the Third World important emerging country in the time of Nasser and Bandung, in line with China, the Soviet Union, and other countries of the third world.

It played an important role in the liberation of all Africa.

An independent Egypt with a sovereign, popular, progressive project would be a danger to the influence of the US, not only in Egypt, but in the Middle East, in Arab countries, and in all Africa. It will limit the expansion of Israel to Palestine. It will also put an end to the influence of the Gulf countries. Egypt is now in another transition which is not peaceful; the clashes have costed dozens of lives. What do think of the bloodshed?

What will be the future of the transition? The people are highly politicized, everybody is discussing politics on the street every day. Therefore different opinions appear, they discuss in some cases correctly and in other cases less correctly. But there is no danger of civil war because the common front is very wide.

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The US is using another weapon in addition to economic and financial pressure. The US are supporting small armed groups operating as real terrorists. These groups are coming from Libya. Since Libya has been destroyed by the western military operation, Libya has become the base for all kinds of Jihadists.

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There are Jihadists with strong arms including missiles coming from the desert, this is the real danger. Also in the Egyptian peninsula of Sinai small Jidahist groups supported by Israel and the Gulf countries are operating terrorist actions. On the 4 th of July after Morsi was removed, I wrote a paper, the last sentence of which says now the danger is from imperialist US, Israel and Gulf, using criminal mercenaries, coming from Libya, and from the province of Sinai.

This is what is happening now: Envoyer par e-mail BlogThis! It was expected by all Egyptians. The government of the Moslem Brothers was pursuing the same reactionary policy as that of Mubarak, and even in a more destructive way for the majority of popular classes.

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Morsi acted as a brutal dictator, setting in all positions in the State of exclusively devoted Moslem Brothers. Probably just as the Democratic Republic of Qatar is! What happened on June 30 th was expected. Mass demonstrations, larger even than those of January But he was unable to mobilise more than a few hundred thousands of paid supporters.

Western powers, Israel and the Gulf countries hate the perspective of a democratic, socially progressive, independent Egypt. They will manipulate criminal mercenaries, so called Jihadists, established with their complicity and support in Lybia and in the Egyptian province of Sina. The Egyptian nation and its army can defeat them. Pioneer of the Rise of the South. Samir Amin wrote more than 30 books: Essai sur les formations sociales du capitalisme peripherique, Paris: La question paysanne et le capitalism ; with A. La crise, quelle crise?

Le grand tumult ; Empire of Chaos,New York: Selected Videos with Samir Amin. Sur la crise, sortir de la crise du capitalisme ou sortir du capitalisme en crise; Le Temps des Cerises, Paris Pour un monde multipolaire; Syllepse Maspero , in collaboration with G. New edition, Economica, New Edition with preface, Economica A View from the South Oxford: The World We Wish to See: Monthly Review Press, — Aakar books, Monthly Review Press, , — Oxford: Monthly Review Press, Ending the Crisis of Capitalism or Ending Capitalism?

Anatomy of a Global Failure London: Zed, — Oxford: