Samir Amin.Accumulation on a World Scale: Thirty Years Later. RM 1(2):54-75 The book Accumulation on a World Scale (Amin, Samir, English edition, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1974 [written 1954-1956]) is considered in light of more recent literature on development, which reflects the same neoclassical vision evident in post-WWII writings. This work provided a critique of bourgeois economics and its application to the problems of development. Various responses to these ideas are explored, including those of: bourgeois economists who ignored the criticism, Soviet thinkers who rejected bourgeois economics out of hand, the neoliberals, and the radical nationalists. Issues reviewed here include the socialist transition and the unevenness of capitalist development. The transition is seen as a decline of the existing system rather than a revolution led by a chosen class (or a nation, as in the case of the USSR).