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The People's Spring: The Future of the Arab Revolution

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The 2011 outburst of uprisings by the Arab peoples caught the world's attention. But can the 'Arab Spring' live up to the hopes invested in it? Amin's incisive analysis shows that although this 'spring' coincides with the 'autumn' of capitalism, the current Arab uprisings are primarily anti-imperialist and not anti-capitalist movements. To take control of shaping their future, Arab peoples need to avoid a retreat into Islamisation, to unify in a positive and genuinely new alternative for secular democracy, and struggle alongside other people against both capitalism and imperialism. If workers in the imperial centres also to rise up the resulting alliance could lead to a transition towards socialism. Alternatively capitalism's decline could pull humanity into widespread barbarity. There are powerful forces pulling in this direction: the US/NATO project for military control of the planet, the decline of democracy in the imperialist countries and the rejection of democracy by religious fundamentalists in countries of the South. The 2011 uprisings offer a glimpse of an alternative future. But the challenge is huge, not only for the Arab and Islamic world but also for all the radical left, in the South and the North. The events currently taking place become comprehensible, enabling us to face up to their challenges, only in the light of understanding them in the long term.

Table of Contents:
Introduction to the French edition Introduction to the English edition - an afterword on the long-term prospects of the Arab world 1 An Arab springtime? 2 The Middle East as turntable of the ancient world system 3 The decline: the Mameluke state, the miscarriage of Nahda and political Islam 4 The leap forward: the Bandung era and Arab popular nationalisms 5 The drift of the national popular project towards 're-compradorising' 6 Conclusion Index

About the Author :
Samir Amin, renowned political economist, is director of Forum du Tiers Monde (Third World Forum) in Dakar. Widely published, he is one of the best-known thinkers of his generation.

Review :
"Written in Amin's usual verve and sharp rhetorical style, "Ending the Crisis of Capitalism or Ending Capitalism?" examines the factors that brought about the 2008 financial collapse and explores what it advances as 'the systemic crisis of capitalism after two decades of neoliberal globalization.'" --"Nigerian Compass" on "Ending the Crisis of Capitalism or Ending Capitalism?" Written in Amin's usual verve and sharp rhetorical style, Ending the Crisis of Capitalism or Ending Capitalism? examines the factors that brought about the 2008 financial collapse and explores what it advances as the systemic crisis of capitalism after two decades of neoliberal globalization. Nigerian Compass on Ending the Crisis of Capitalism or Ending Capitalism?"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780857491152
  • Publisher: Pambazuka Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pambazuka Press
  • Height: 198 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Future of the Arab Revolution
  • Width: 129 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0857491156
  • Publisher Date: 16 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Weight: 211 gr


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