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Emmanuel was, in fact, the last great left-wing theoretician of the 20th century, even if this is a judgement few Marxists would agree with..
Who was Arghiri Emmanuel?
Emmanuel a man of the 20th century
Emmanuel was born in and died in and hence experienced many of the historical characteristics of the 20th century, which contributed to the development of his theory of unequal exchange.
He was born in Patras, Greece, At the time Greece was in the semi-periphery, if not the periphery of the capitalist world system.
Emmanuels childhood was at the time of the first wave of revolutionary uprisings in the periphery: The Taiping revolution in and the Russian revolution in It was also the era of colonialism and inter-imperialist rivalry. Greece took part in the Balkan wars () and was also drawn into the First World War and subsequently into yet another Greco-Turkish war from to
The world economic crisis of hit Greece severely, leading to continued mass emigration from Greece.
Emmanuel studied at the High School of Economics and Commerce in Athens from to and then at the Faculty of Law until , from where he went