Theory is History

• Main Author: Amin, Samir (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, 17
• Subjects: Political science.; Political theory.; Political economy.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Theory.; Political Economy.

This book focuses on a central concept that “Theory is History”, as the theory of capitalism can only be formulated on the basis of an analysis of its history. In contrast, bourgeois thinking replaces the analysis of historical capitalism with an abstract theory without any links to reality. “Econom...

Table of Contents:

• The globalised law of value
• Capitalism and ground rent
• Modernity and interpretations of religions
• Re-reading the post war period
• Historical capitalism; accumulation by dispossession
• The two paths of historical development; the contrast between Europe and China
• Russia in the world system; geography or history?
• China, the emerging nation.