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Imperialism and Unequal Development
English, French (translation)
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First published January 1, 1976
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Samir Amin
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Samir Amin (Arabic: سمير أمين) (3 September 1931 – 12 August 2018) was an Egyptian-French Marxian economist, political scientist and world-systems analyst. He is noted for his introduction of the term Eurocentrism in 1988 and considered a pioneer of Dependency Theory.
Samir Amin (Arabic: سمير أمين) (3 September 1931 – 12 August 2018) was an Egyptian-French Marxian economist, political scientist and world-systems analyst. He is noted for his introduction of the term Eurocentrism in 1988 and considered a pioneer of Dependency Theory.
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December 4, 2022
A collection of essays built on Amir's earlier work of unequal development containing their usual sharp analysis
Although the average rate of exploitation in the periphery may be lower than in the centre, that portion of capital that dominates the system (the monopoly capital which directly or indirectly controls the primary activities in the periphery - major exports, modern industries, including those producing for the local market), undoubtedly profits, with respect to its local activities in the periphery, from higher rates of exploitation. The chief tendency of the world system, therefore, is for the rates of exploitation of labour power to grow increasingly unequal. This is why Lenin, and then the Chinese, replaced the slogan "Workers of the world, unite!" with the slogan "Workers of the world, oppressed peoples, unite!". It is from the vantage point that we must view the contradiction between developed and underdeveloped countries in relation to the totality of the contradictions that characterise the global class struggle
How promising new industries that require a qualitatively different composition of labour, which, with the advent of automation, tends to eliminate "common" labour, but requires proportionately many more "highly skilled" workers, tend to be located in the centre, and then imposed on the underdeveloped world is a new, unequal international division of labour that would force it to accept industries previously reserved for the developed countries, but now becoming less attractive in terms of their future possibilities. This is why the Third World is now the site of many old textile industries, and this new international division of labour will be based increasingly on the inequality of labour skills
Summarising unequal exchange in the world capitalist system as the differential between rewards to labour being greater than that between productivities
Although the average rate of exploitation in the periphery may be lower than in the centre, that portion of capital that dominates the system (the monopoly capital which directly or indirectly controls the primary activities in the periphery - major exports, modern industries, including those producing for the local market), undoubtedly profits, with respect to its local activities in the periphery, from higher rates of exploitation. The chief tendency of the world system, therefore, is for the rates of exploitation of labour power to grow increasingly unequal. This is why Lenin, and then the Chinese, replaced the slogan "Workers of the world, unite!" with the slogan "Workers of the world, oppressed peoples, unite!". It is from the vantage point that we must view the contradiction between developed and underdeveloped countries in relation to the totality of the contradictions that characterise the global class struggle
How promising new industries that require a qualitatively different composition of labour, which, with the advent of automation, tends to eliminate "common" labour, but requires proportionately many more "highly skilled" workers, tend to be located in the centre, and then imposed on the underdeveloped world is a new, unequal international division of labour that would force it to accept industries previously reserved for the developed countries, but now becoming less attractive in terms of their future possibilities. This is why the Third World is now the site of many old textile industries, and this new international division of labour will be based increasingly on the inequality of labour skills
Summarising unequal exchange in the world capitalist system as the differential between rewards to labour being greater than that between productivities
September 18, 2023
Kapitalizmi anlamak aslında nasıl bir sistem çalışıyor, dinamikleri nelerdir ve bizi nasıl etkiliyor gibi sorular eşliğinde içinde bulunduğumuz yapıya dair derinlemesine düşünmeye yol açıyor.
Kurcalamak, sorgulamak iyidir.
Samir Amin'i, çeviren Semih Lim sayesindeTürçe okumak keyifli. Biraz ekonomi altyapısı veya alışıklığı rahatlatır ama zorlaştıran değil kolaylaştıran bir dili var.
Kurcalamak, sorgulamak iyidir.
Samir Amin'i, çeviren Semih Lim sayesindeTürçe okumak keyifli. Biraz ekonomi altyapısı veya alışıklığı rahatlatır ama zorlaştıran değil kolaylaştıran bir dili var.
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