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Best regards, Andrew Stewart Begin forwarded message: > From: Monthly Review Press <pr...@monthlyreview.org> > Date: July 18, 2016 at 12:05:54 PM EDT > To: <hasc.warrior.s...@gmail.com> > Subject: New! Samir Amin's "Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to > Socialism" > Reply-To: Monthly Review Press <pr...@monthlyreview.org> > > > New from Monthly Review Press: Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism > to Socialism > Is this email not displaying correctly? > View it in your browser. > > New from Monthly Review Press > > Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism > by Samir Amin > > “What is splendid in Amin’s writing … is his lucidity of expression, his > clear consistency of approach, and, above all his absolutely unwavering > condemnation of the ravages of capital and of bourgeois ideology in all its > forms.… Amin remains an essential point of reference, and an inspiration.” > —Bill Bowring, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books > “Amin’s global intellectual reach enables him to deal with a wide variety of > issues … with magnificent ease and simplicity.” > —International Journal of Middle East Studies > “Amin is both a real-world social scientist and a revolutionary socialist.” > —Review of Radical Political Economy > Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world’s first significant > effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist > economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced the Soviet Union > also produced a movement away from capitalism—a long transition that > continues today. In seven concise, provocative chapters, Amin deftly examines > the trajectory of Russian capitalism, the Bolshevik Revolution, the collapse > of the Soviet Union, the possible future of Russia—and, by extension, the > future of socialism itself. > > Amin manages to combine an analysis of class struggle with geopolitics—both > crucial to understanding Russia’s complex political history. He first looks > at the development (or lack thereof) of Russian capitalism. He sees Russia’s > geopolitical isolation as the reason its capitalist empire developed so > differently from Western Europe, and the reason for Russia’s perceived > “backwardness.” Yet Russia’s unique capitalism proved to be the rich soil in > which the Bolsheviks were able to take power, and Amin covers the rise and > fall of the revolutionary Soviet system. Finally, in a powerful chapter on > Ukraine and the rise of global fascism, Amin lays out the conditions > necessary for Russia to recreate itself, and perhaps again move down the long > road to socialism. Samir Amin’s great achievement in this book is not only to > explain Russia’s historical tragedies and triumphs, but also to temper our > hopes for a quick end to an increasingly insufferable capitalism. > > > > 144 pages | $23 pbk > > order online here > > > > Samir Amin was born in Egypt in 1931 and received his Ph.D. in economics in > Paris in 1957. He is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His > numerous works include The Law of Worldwide Value, Eurocentrism, The World We > Wish to See, and The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism. > follow on twitter | facebook | forward to a friend > Copyright © 2016 Monthly Review, All rights reserved. > > You are receiving this email either because you subscribed at > monthlyreview.org, or made a purchase from Monthly Review Press (e.g., a > Monthly Review magazine subscription). We send no more than one or two > messages a month about new book releases and specials. You can opt out from > mailings at any time. > > Our mailing address is: > Monthly Review > 134 W 29th > STE 706 > New York, NY 10001 > > Add us to your address book > unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
