Maldevelopment - Anatomy of a Global Failure (United Nations University): 6. Political and social conditions for alternative development in the third world: Notes

Maldevelopment - Anatomy of a Global Failure (United Nations University)

6. Political and social conditions for alternative development in the third world

		(introduction...)
		Impossibility of the bourgeois national state in the peripheries of the world system1
		Inequality in the worldwide expansion of capitalism; the state's central role
		The worldwide spread of value3
		A return to the third world?4
		The consequences of unequal development
		The issue of democracy
		The historical subject of the popular national option; the role of the intelligentsia
		Notes

Notes

1. See Samir Amin's preface to Anyang' Nyong'o, Peter (ed.), Popular Struggles for Democracy in Africa, London, Zed Books. 1987, and cf, notes I and 3 to Chapter 5 above.

2. See Szentes, Tamas, Theories of World Capitalist Economy, Budapest. 1985, and cf. Amin, Samir, 'Etat et dloppement', Socialism in the World, No. 58, 1987.

3. On worldwide value, see Amin, Samir, The Law of Value and Historical Materialism, New York. Monthly Review Press, 1978: and cf. Amin, Samir Delinking, London, Zed Books, 1989.

4. See Amin, Samir. 'Democracy and National strategy in the Periphery'; 'Etat et dloppement'; contribution to Dynamics of Global Crisis; 'Les perspectives du socialisme', Socialism in the World, No. 54, 1986.

5. See articles by Fawzy Mansour and Samir Amin (in Arabic) in the Egyptian journal Qadaya Fikriyya, 1987.