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Title: The trajectory of historical capitalism and marxism’s tricontinental vocation
Authors: Amin, Samir
Keywords: historical capitalism
historical marxism
ending capitalism
internationalism
Issue Date: Feb-2011
Series/Report no.: Monthly review;Vol. 62, N° 9
Abstract: The long history of capitalism is composed of three distinct, successive phases: (1) a lengthy preparation—the transition from the tributary mode, the usual form of organization of pre-modern societies—which lasted eight centuries, from 1000 to 1800; (2) a short period of maturity (the nineteenth century), during which the "West" affirmed its domination; (3) the long "decline" caused by the "Awakening of the South" (to use the title of my book, published in 2007) in which the peoples and their states regained the major initiative in transforming the world—the first wave having taken place in the twentieth century. This struggle against an imperialist order that is inseparable from the global expansion of capitalism is itself the potential agent in the long road of transition, beyond capitalism, toward socialism. In the twenty-first century, there are now the beginnings of a second wave of independent initiatives by the peoples and states of the South.
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