Unfinished Dream: A Critique of Samir Amin

Volume |Issue 27| Winter 2019 |Articles

Abstract

This study revisits Samir Amin’s Marxist conceptual framework as one of the pioneers of the Dependency Theory School that dominated scholarly understandings of the structural relationship between capitalism and underdevelopment. Amin provided a solid economic analysis that explains how the progress of the developed capitalism coincided with underdevelopment in the rest of the world. However, this article will show that Amin’s theoretical and ideological model pushed him to go further in developing a distinctive teleological Marxist theory on history that serves his theory of dependency.



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Iraqi scholar and writer in social science and political economy. He has taught at the University of Amsterdam, New York University, and Yale University. He has also advised the UNDP on Syria and the UN on Iraq. An adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC, and contributing editor of Middle East Report, Washington DC, al Khafaji is the author of five books in English and Arabic and numerous papers, articles and chapters in English and Arabic, many of which have been translated into other languages. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences, and a PhD in Economics.

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