Paris Yeros
Biographic Data
| ID | 219278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paris Yeros |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paris |
| FAMILY NAME | Yeros |
| SIGNATURE | YEROS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Federal do ABC |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4200-1808 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 237 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Historical Materialism in the Last Stage of Imperialism
This article provides a historical perspective on the trajectory of neocolonialism and the current systemic crisis before revisiting some of the open questions on systemic transition. The key aspects of this trajectory include the permanent crisis of monopoly capitalism and the manner in which peripheral social formations have evolved. A real trend toward recolonization is clearly evident at the current juncture. The specific questions considered…
Um mundo policêntrico só será possível pela intervenção da “sexta grande potência”
A intervenção das forças populares — o que Marx chamou de “sexta grande potência”, em referência às cinco grandes potências europeias de seu tempo — continua sendo fundamental para a atual transição sistêmica. Este artigo busca esclarecer o caráter e a evolução da contradição entre o imperialismo e os trabalhadores do Terceiro Mundo. Baseando-se na noção de policentris- mo de Samir Amin, argumenta-se que a transição atual, marcada pelo declí- nio…
A Polycentric World Will Be Possible Only with the Intervention of the ‘Sixth Great Power’
A Polycentric World Will Only Be Possible by the Intervention of the “Sixth Great Power”
The intervention of popular forces—what Marx termed the “sixth” great power among the five European “great powers” of his time—remains fundamental to the current systemic transition. This article seeks to clarify the evolving character of the contradiction between imperialism and the working people of the Third World. Drawing on Samir Amin’s notion of “polycentrism,” it is argued that the current transition, marked by the protracted decline of th…
Zimbabwe's Command Agriculture
This article examines the impacts of Zimbabwe's Command Agriculture (CA) program, a state-driven cereal production model implemented since 2016. In the context of the neglect of cereal crops by African states generally under the accumulation strategies of international and domestic capital, and in the face of persisting neoliberal strategies led by international agencies such as the World Bank, the Zimbabwe experience continues to provide insight…
Semiproletarização generalizada na África
This article provides an overview of the contemporary social formation of Africa.The specific focus is the transformation of the world of work in the neoliberal period, a subject already widely discussed in research on the rural exodus, the new value chains and the informalization of work.The question that guides this work is whether there is a qualitative change in the contemporary African social formation in the neoliberal period.The hypothesis…
Luta por soberania epistêmica no Sul
A presente homenagem a Sam Moyo traz à tona a sua trajetória na tradição Pan-Africanista de economia política e na construção de uma nova dinâmica intelectual autônoma entre África, Ásia, América Latina e Caribe. Nascido no Zimbábue sob o regime colonial rodesiano, iniciou os seus estudos na África do Oeste nos anos 1970, onde obteve a sua duradoura orientação epistemológica pautada na libertação nacional. Ali se consolidava à época um pensamento…
Late Neo-colonialism
This article celebrates the lifelong contribution of Samir Amin by advancing the analysis of the long crisis of monopoly capitalism. It takes issue with reductionist and ahistorical theories of crisis to grasp the nature of the present as a terminal systemic crisis, which has played out in the long transition from colonialism to neo-colonial rule. Kwame Nkrumah had foretold of the destructive nature of this transition for both North and South, an…
Reclaiming Africa
Global Agricultural Value Systems and the South
Contemporary capitalism has been in a process of restructuring driven by giant corporations for which the world as a whole has become the playing field, more than ever before. As such, components of a single end-use commodity/final output are conceived, designed, produced, procured, and processed in different parts of the globe, before being assembled at a specific destination for ultimate consumption, which again may have a global reach. This is…
Reclaiming Africa
Luta, resistência e uma nova estratégia de não-alinhamento
Labour Trends in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Current Crisis (2008-2016)
This article reviews the recent growth period in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries up to the current crisis, to provide an assessment of trends observed in the world of labour. Our assessment includes demographic trends, the employment structure, trends in unemployment and wages and the trajectory of social, racial and gender inequalities. We argue that the LAC region has undergone significant structural changes due to shifting positio…
Samson Moyo, 1954–2015
In Defense of Intellectual Autonomy
This article is a response to Fred Hendricks’ critique of our most recent statement on the classical and contemporary agrarian questions. The critique, we believe, is a gross misunderstanding of our position on a variety of issues, including populism, nationalism, the character of the peasantry and industrialization. In defence of our intellectual integrity and autonomy, we restate here our basic positions and outline the trajectory of our collec…
The rise and fall of trade unionism in Zimbabwe, Part II
This article is the second of a two-part study on the evolution of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) in the 1990s. This second part covers the period 1995–2000, when the labour centre adopted a ‘social democratic’ ideology and a strategy of negotiation. This lasted until 1997, when the labour centre resolved to challenge the ruling party's hold on power. The article argues that the labour centre increasingly narrowed its democratisatio…
The rise and fall of trade unionism in Zimbabwe, Part I
This article is the first of a two-part study on the evolution of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) in the 1990s. This first part covers the period 1990–1995, when the labour centre was in its most radical mode. This is demonstrated by tracing its interventions in the public debate, its mobilisation and democratisation campaign, and its escalating strike action. It is argued, however, that the weaknesses of the ZCTU, especially its lac…
The Classical Agrarian Question
This article traces a particular view of the classical agrarian question in Marxian political economy which has sustained the myth of industrialization as the basic objective of transformation. The idea was born in the late nineteenth century among the European vanguard, then consolidated as an axiom during the Cold War, only to be resurrected in the neoliberal period by a professionalized discipline of 'agrarian studies'. This article argues tha…
Imperialism and Primitive Accumulation
This article recuperates the links between imperialism and primitive accumulation, arguing that the two are inherently connected. It undertakes a review of the literature to show that the links are deeper than is often recognized, as in the work of David Harvey. It also maps the stages of imperialism, their logics and characteristics, from the initial expansion of merchant capitalism, through monopoly capitalism and its financialization, which is…
Intervention The Zimbabwe Question and the Two Lefts
This article identifies the two currents that have divided the Left over the Zimbabwe question. It argues that in the course of the radicalisation of the Zimbabwean state, 'Two Lefts' emerged, the so-called 'internationalist' and the 'nationalist', to take up opposite positions over a series of political questions, most notably the agrarian question and the national question. The article defends the nationalist Left and offers a critique of the '…
The Radicalised State
This article conceptualises the revolutionary situation that gripped Zimbabwe from the late 1990s. That was the moment in which the two political questions that historically have galvanized peripheral capitalism – the agrarian and the national – were returned to the forefront of political life. We argue that the revolutionary situation resulted neither in a revolution, nor in mediocre reformism, nor in restoration. It resulted in an interrupted r…
Reclaiming the Land
Rural movements have recently emerged to become some of the most important social forces in opposition to neoliberalism. From Brazil and Mexico to Zimbabwe and the Philippines, rural movements of diverse political character, but all sharing the same social basis of dispossessed peasants and unemployed workers, have used land occupations and other tactics to confront the neoliberal state. This volume brings together for the first time across three…
Zimbabwe and the Dilemmas of the Left
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa features a series of 'constructivist' contributions by leading scholars in the field of ethnicity and nationalism, and explores the differences among those who have
The Classical Agrarian Question
This article traces a particular view of the classical agrarian question in Marxian political economy which has sustained the myth of industrialization as the basic objective of transformation. The idea was born in the late nineteenth century among the European vanguard, then consolidated as an axiom during the Cold War, only to be resurrected in the neoliberal period by a professionalized discipline of 'agrarian studies'. This article argues tha…
The Radicalised State
This article conceptualises the revolutionary situation that gripped Zimbabwe from the late 1990s. That was the moment in which the two political questions that historically have galvanized peripheral capitalism – the agrarian and the national – were returned to the forefront of political life. We argue that the revolutionary situation resulted neither in a revolution, nor in mediocre reformism, nor in restoration. It resulted in an interrupted r…
Imperialism and Primitive Accumulation
This article recuperates the links between imperialism and primitive accumulation, arguing that the two are inherently connected. It undertakes a review of the literature to show that the links are deeper than is often recognized, as in the work of David Harvey. It also maps the stages of imperialism, their logics and characteristics, from the initial expansion of merchant capitalism, through monopoly capitalism and its financialization, which is…
Intervention The Zimbabwe Question and the Two Lefts
This article identifies the two currents that have divided the Left over the Zimbabwe question. It argues that in the course of the radicalisation of the Zimbabwean state, 'Two Lefts' emerged, the so-called 'internationalist' and the 'nationalist', to take up opposite positions over a series of political questions, most notably the agrarian question and the national question. The article defends the nationalist Left and offers a critique of the '…
Zimbabwe and the Dilemmas of the Left
Late Neo-colonialism
This article celebrates the lifelong contribution of Samir Amin by advancing the analysis of the long crisis of monopoly capitalism. It takes issue with reductionist and ahistorical theories of crisis to grasp the nature of the present as a terminal systemic crisis, which has played out in the long transition from colonialism to neo-colonial rule. Kwame Nkrumah had foretold of the destructive nature of this transition for both North and South, an…
The rise and fall of trade unionism in Zimbabwe, Part I
This article is the first of a two-part study on the evolution of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) in the 1990s. This first part covers the period 1990–1995, when the labour centre was in its most radical mode. This is demonstrated by tracing its interventions in the public debate, its mobilisation and democratisation campaign, and its escalating strike action. It is argued, however, that the weaknesses of the ZCTU, especially its lac…
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa features a series of 'constructivist' contributions by leading scholars in the field of ethnicity and nationalism, and explores the differences among those who have
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa
Zimbabwe's Command Agriculture
This article examines the impacts of Zimbabwe's Command Agriculture (CA) program, a state-driven cereal production model implemented since 2016. In the context of the neglect of cereal crops by African states generally under the accumulation strategies of international and domestic capital, and in the face of persisting neoliberal strategies led by international agencies such as the World Bank, the Zimbabwe experience continues to provide insight…
Global Agricultural Value Systems and the South
Contemporary capitalism has been in a process of restructuring driven by giant corporations for which the world as a whole has become the playing field, more than ever before. As such, components of a single end-use commodity/final output are conceived, designed, produced, procured, and processed in different parts of the globe, before being assembled at a specific destination for ultimate consumption, which again may have a global reach. This is…
The rise and fall of trade unionism in Zimbabwe, Part II
This article is the second of a two-part study on the evolution of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) in the 1990s. This second part covers the period 1995–2000, when the labour centre adopted a ‘social democratic’ ideology and a strategy of negotiation. This lasted until 1997, when the labour centre resolved to challenge the ruling party's hold on power. The article argues that the labour centre increasingly narrowed its democratisatio…
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa features a series of 'constructivist' contributions by leading scholars in the field of ethnicity and nationalism, and explores the differences among those who have
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa
Zimbabwe and the Dilemmas of the Left
Reclaiming the Land
Rural movements have recently emerged to become some of the most important social forces in opposition to neoliberalism. From Brazil and Mexico to Zimbabwe and the Philippines, rural movements of diverse political character, but all sharing the same social basis of dispossessed peasants and unemployed workers, have used land occupations and other tactics to confront the neoliberal state. This volume brings together for the first time across three…
Intervention The Zimbabwe Question and the Two Lefts
This article identifies the two currents that have divided the Left over the Zimbabwe question. It argues that in the course of the radicalisation of the Zimbabwean state, 'Two Lefts' emerged, the so-called 'internationalist' and the 'nationalist', to take up opposite positions over a series of political questions, most notably the agrarian question and the national question. The article defends the nationalist Left and offers a critique of the '…
The Radicalised State
This article conceptualises the revolutionary situation that gripped Zimbabwe from the late 1990s. That was the moment in which the two political questions that historically have galvanized peripheral capitalism – the agrarian and the national – were returned to the forefront of political life. We argue that the revolutionary situation resulted neither in a revolution, nor in mediocre reformism, nor in restoration. It resulted in an interrupted r…
Imperialism and Primitive Accumulation
This article recuperates the links between imperialism and primitive accumulation, arguing that the two are inherently connected. It undertakes a review of the literature to show that the links are deeper than is often recognized, as in the work of David Harvey. It also maps the stages of imperialism, their logics and characteristics, from the initial expansion of merchant capitalism, through monopoly capitalism and its financialization, which is…
The rise and fall of trade unionism in Zimbabwe, Part II
This article is the second of a two-part study on the evolution of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) in the 1990s. This second part covers the period 1995–2000, when the labour centre adopted a ‘social democratic’ ideology and a strategy of negotiation. This lasted until 1997, when the labour centre resolved to challenge the ruling party's hold on power. The article argues that the labour centre increasingly narrowed its democratisatio…
The rise and fall of trade unionism in Zimbabwe, Part I
This article is the first of a two-part study on the evolution of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) in the 1990s. This first part covers the period 1990–1995, when the labour centre was in its most radical mode. This is demonstrated by tracing its interventions in the public debate, its mobilisation and democratisation campaign, and its escalating strike action. It is argued, however, that the weaknesses of the ZCTU, especially its lac…
The Classical Agrarian Question
This article traces a particular view of the classical agrarian question in Marxian political economy which has sustained the myth of industrialization as the basic objective of transformation. The idea was born in the late nineteenth century among the European vanguard, then consolidated as an axiom during the Cold War, only to be resurrected in the neoliberal period by a professionalized discipline of 'agrarian studies'. This article argues tha…
In Defense of Intellectual Autonomy
This article is a response to Fred Hendricks’ critique of our most recent statement on the classical and contemporary agrarian questions. The critique, we believe, is a gross misunderstanding of our position on a variety of issues, including populism, nationalism, the character of the peasantry and industrialization. In defence of our intellectual integrity and autonomy, we restate here our basic positions and outline the trajectory of our collec…
Samson Moyo, 1954–2015
Labour Trends in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Current Crisis (2008-2016)
This article reviews the recent growth period in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries up to the current crisis, to provide an assessment of trends observed in the world of labour. Our assessment includes demographic trends, the employment structure, trends in unemployment and wages and the trajectory of social, racial and gender inequalities. We argue that the LAC region has undergone significant structural changes due to shifting positio…
Reclaiming Africa
Luta, resistência e uma nova estratégia de não-alinhamento
Reclaiming Africa
Global Agricultural Value Systems and the South
Contemporary capitalism has been in a process of restructuring driven by giant corporations for which the world as a whole has become the playing field, more than ever before. As such, components of a single end-use commodity/final output are conceived, designed, produced, procured, and processed in different parts of the globe, before being assembled at a specific destination for ultimate consumption, which again may have a global reach. This is…
Late Neo-colonialism
This article celebrates the lifelong contribution of Samir Amin by advancing the analysis of the long crisis of monopoly capitalism. It takes issue with reductionist and ahistorical theories of crisis to grasp the nature of the present as a terminal systemic crisis, which has played out in the long transition from colonialism to neo-colonial rule. Kwame Nkrumah had foretold of the destructive nature of this transition for both North and South, an…
Luta por soberania epistêmica no Sul
A presente homenagem a Sam Moyo traz à tona a sua trajetória na tradição Pan-Africanista de economia política e na construção de uma nova dinâmica intelectual autônoma entre África, Ásia, América Latina e Caribe. Nascido no Zimbábue sob o regime colonial rodesiano, iniciou os seus estudos na África do Oeste nos anos 1970, onde obteve a sua duradoura orientação epistemológica pautada na libertação nacional. Ali se consolidava à época um pensamento…
Semiproletarização generalizada na África
This article provides an overview of the contemporary social formation of Africa.The specific focus is the transformation of the world of work in the neoliberal period, a subject already widely discussed in research on the rural exodus, the new value chains and the informalization of work.The question that guides this work is whether there is a qualitative change in the contemporary African social formation in the neoliberal period.The hypothesis…
Zimbabwe's Command Agriculture
This article examines the impacts of Zimbabwe's Command Agriculture (CA) program, a state-driven cereal production model implemented since 2016. In the context of the neglect of cereal crops by African states generally under the accumulation strategies of international and domestic capital, and in the face of persisting neoliberal strategies led by international agencies such as the World Bank, the Zimbabwe experience continues to provide insight…
A Polycentric World Will Only Be Possible by the Intervention of the “Sixth Great Power”
The intervention of popular forces—what Marx termed the “sixth” great power among the five European “great powers” of his time—remains fundamental to the current systemic transition. This article seeks to clarify the evolving character of the contradiction between imperialism and the working people of the Third World. Drawing on Samir Amin’s notion of “polycentrism,” it is argued that the current transition, marked by the protracted decline of th…
Um mundo policêntrico só será possível pela intervenção da “sexta grande potência”
A intervenção das forças populares — o que Marx chamou de “sexta grande potência”, em referência às cinco grandes potências europeias de seu tempo — continua sendo fundamental para a atual transição sistêmica. Este artigo busca esclarecer o caráter e a evolução da contradição entre o imperialismo e os trabalhadores do Terceiro Mundo. Baseando-se na noção de policentris- mo de Samir Amin, argumenta-se que a transição atual, marcada pelo declí- nio…
A Polycentric World Will Be Possible Only with the Intervention of the ‘Sixth Great Power’
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