The World We Wish to See: Revolutionary Objectives in the Twenty-First Century

by Samir Amin

Book Overview

The World We Wish to See presents a sweeping view of twentieth-century political history and a stirring appeal to take political culture seriously. Samir Amin offers a provocative analysis of resistance to capitalism and imperialism and calls for a new politics of opposition. Capitalism is a global system, so ultimately any successful challenge to it must be organized on the same level: an "internationalism of peoples."
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583671714
• ISBN13: 9781583671719
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.5"

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Revolution on a World Scale

This book is a logical continuation of previous Samir Amin's work on political economy of unequal development, imperialism and capital accumulation on a world scale. As capitalism is unequal and by its nature divided on centre and periphery the revolution is dependent on its uneven logics of development. From this point of view Amin looks at previous struggles like revolutions in Russia and China and national liberation in the Third World and contemporary struggle against neoliberalism. Amin thinks that transition towards a socialist future would take a form of a contradictory "long transition". Unfortunately Amin says little about the tactics of contemporary struggle and his approach of political culture is not sufficient for analysis. Nevertheless the work is interesting as an introduction to his thought and the problematics of political implications of unequal development under imperialism.