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In the introduction to this work, I recalled that my reading of Das Kapital had aroused my enthusiasm yet had given me no greater understanding about the origin of Asian and African ‘underdevelopment’. And I noted that all my subsequent analytical work—during a half-century—has gone into an effort to fill that lacuna.
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This text was first published in: Samir Amin: Ending the crisis of capitalism or ending capitalism (Oxford: Fahamu Books 2011). The author retains the copyright for all of his texts.
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Karl Marx to Ferdinand Lassalle, 22 February 1858; see: at: <http://www.marxistsfr.org/archive/marx/works/1858/letters/58_02_22.htm>.
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Michael Lebowitz: Following Marx: Method, Critique and Crisis (Leiden: Brill 2009).
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Marx’s Formen is available in English in Eric Hobsbawm (Ed.): Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations (London: Lawrence and Wishart 1965).
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Samir Amin: Unequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formations of Peripheral Capitalism (New York: Monthly Review Press 1976); Eurocentrism, second edition (New York: Monthly Review Press 2009).
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Amin, S. (2014). The Globalized Law of Value. In: Theory is History. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03816-2_1
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