Is it possible for the Third World to escape from the constraints imposed by the world's economic system? What room for manoeuvre do these states have, and are they condemned to dependence? These are some of the questions Samir Amin confronts in Delinking . He argues that Third World countries cannot hope to raise living standards if they continue to adjust their development strategies in line with the trends set by a fundamentally unequal global capitalist system over which they have no control. The only alternative, he ...
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Is it possible for the Third World to escape from the constraints imposed by the world's economic system? What room for manoeuvre do these states have, and are they condemned to dependence? These are some of the questions Samir Amin confronts in Delinking . He argues that Third World countries cannot hope to raise living standards if they continue to adjust their development strategies in line with the trends set by a fundamentally unequal global capitalist system over which they have no control. The only alternative, he maintains, is for Third World societies to 'delink' from the logic of the global system - each country submitting its external economic relations to the logic of domestic development priorities, which in turn requires a broad coalition of popular forces in control of the state. Delinking, he shows, is not about absolute autarchy, but a neutralizing of the effects of external economic interactions on internal choices.
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Samir Amin builds upon the argument presented in his previous works such as "Accumulation on World Scale" and "Unequal Development" to present a development path for the Third World countries which would avoid the pitfalls of what Frank called development of underdevelopment. Amin's proposal can be summarised as establishing value according to the socially necessary labour within national borders instead of using the global one which is bound to the productivity of the First World countries.
Evidently, the book reflects the historical circumstances in which it was written (1985.) and dedicates a lot of space to the discussion of what Amin calls non-capitalist statist societies such as USSR and China. While he goes at length to describe why those societies are not exactly socialist, he doesn't really set the ground by explaining what he thinks socialism should be. In passing, he does mention socialism in terms of abolition of classes.
While he describes the economic aspects of delinking, he does not consider political and military repercussions such policy would imply in terms of an imperialist intervention, international isolation, etc.
