The Liberal Virus. Samir Amin

lost the positions that they occupied in older systems, have not been integrated into the new). But in its ascendant, and historically progressive phase, it integrated more than it excluded.

      This is no longer the case, as is specifically and dramatically evident in the new agrarian question. If, as dictated by the World Trade Organization since the Doha conference of November 2001, agriculture is integrated into the whole set of general rules of “competition,” thereby making agricultural and food products “commodities just like all the others,” there will be definite consequences, given the huge conditions of inequality between agribusiness, on the one hand, and peasant production, on the other.