"Indeed, Said and Amin in many ways represent the contrast between postcolonial and Marxist views of imperialism in the social sciences โ Orientalism for one, and Eurocentrism for the other."
"Amin, a neo-Marxist, was less interested in attitudes and culture, which preoccupy postcolonialists, and more interested in Eurocentrism as a polarising and ideological global project that reinforced imperialism and systemic inequalities..."
"by legitimising a global system that expropriated resources and exploited people in the Global South."
"Delinking: Towards a Polycentric World (1990) provides an assessment of possible ways forward for a sovereign state in the periphery."
"In Delinking, Amin argues that the specific conditions that allowed for the advancement of capitalism in Western Europe in the 19th century are not possible to reproduce elsewhere."
"Delinking does not require cutting all ties to the rest of the global economy, but rather the refusal to submit national-development strategies to the imperatives of globalisation."
"It aims to compel a political economy suited to its needs, rather than simply going along with having to unilaterally adjust to the needs of the global system."
"To this goal of greater sovereignty, a county would develop its own productive systems and prioritise the needs of the people rather than the demands on international capital."
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