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Sociologie et sociétés

Capitalisme et système-mondeCapitalism and the World SystemSamir AMIN

Racisme, ethnicité, nationVolume 24, Number 2, automne 1992

URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/001008arDOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/001008ar

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Publisher(s)Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal

ISSN0038-030X (print)1492-1375 (digital)

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Cite this articleAMIN, S. (1992). Capitalisme et système-monde. Sociologie et sociétés, 24 (2),181–202. https://doi.org/10.7202/001008ar

Article abstractThis paper deals with three questions relating to capitalist expansion: i)polarization between centers and peripheries, which the author considers tobe immanent in global capitalism and specific to it, being the expression of thelaw of globalized values ; ii) the long cycle (Kondratieff) the very existence ofwhich the author questions, and even more so the mechanistic representationsof its repetitive development; iii) the hegemonies which he considers to be theexception, the rule being rivalry between concurrent centers. The authorinsists consequently on the specificity of capitalism and refuses anyextrapolations from the phenomena under consideration to previous timeperiods.