"Amin is both a real-world social scientist and a revolutionary socialist."
Review of Radical Political Economy Samir Amin's ambitious new book argues that
the ongoing American project to dominate the world through military force has
its roots in European liberalism, but has developed certain features of liberal
ideology in a new and uniquely dangerous way. Where European political culture
since the French Revolution has given a central place to values of equality, the
American state has developed to serve the interests of capital alone, and is now
exporting this model throughout the world. American Imperialism, Amin argues,
will be far more barbaric than earlier forms of imperialism,