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The past half-century can now be seen as the completion of a historic period. We are entering a new and probably markedly different cycle. With hindsight, the period just completed can be described more accurately than was possible even a few years ago.
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See my articles “A propos de la regulation,” published in Arabic in: The Arab Economic Review, no. 1 (1992): 24; “Trente ans de critique du systeme sovietique 1960–1990,” in: Africa Development 16, no. 2 (1991): 73–94, and partially in English in “Thirty Years of Critique of the Soviet System”, in: Monthly Review, 44, no. 1 (1992): 43–50; and “II y a trente ans, Bandoung” published in 1985 and collected in the revised and expanded edition of L’Echange inegal et la loi de la valeur (Paris: Economica 1988; hereafter L’Echange inegal).
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From November 1949 to February 1953, sixteen issues of the journal Etudiants Anticolonialistes appeared under the direction of Jacques Verges. Contributors included officials of the Association des Etudiants Musulmans Nord-africains (AEMNA), the Vietnamese Vo The Quang and Do Dai Phuoc, students from Reunion and the Caribbean (Justin, Fardin), and my first sub-Saharan African friends (Malik Sangaret, Abdou Moumouni). The journal supported peace for Vietnam, for North Korea, and for Egypt during partisan attacks on the Suez Canal in 1951.
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From June 1949 to july 1953, twenty-five issues of the Journal Moyen Orient appeared under the direction of Maxime Rodinson. Contributors included Ismail Abdallah; Iraj Eskandari, a Tudeh Party leader; Raymond Aghion; and Yves Benot. It produced interesting studies such as a history of Tudeh and of the Muslim Brotherhood. It advocated the notion of Arab neutralism several years ahead of the Bandung era.
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“Les Effets structurels de l'integration internationale des economies precapitalistes: Une Etude theorique du mecanisme qui a engendre les economies dites sous-developpees” [The structural effects of the international integration of precapitalist economies: A theoretical study of the mechanism that has engendered the so-called underdeveloped economies] (Paris: University of Paris 1957, hereafter “Les Effets structurels”).
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See Samir Amin, L'Accumulation à l'écbelle mondiale (Paris: Anthropos 1970), and in English, Accumulation on a World Scale, 2 vols. (New York: Monthly Review Press 1974, hereafter Accumulation).
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Amin, S. (2014). Re-reading the Post War Period. 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_4
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