The area of Al-Hal Markets inside Paris has a unique status due to the relation of their parts with each other and the relation of these elements with the city and the area around it. This unique status is different from the known centers of European
cities; the
relation of transport networks, the change in the ground and underground itineraries, and the population’s relationship in the center of the city – in spite of their few numbers - with the visitors, arrivals, business owners or entrepreneurs are temporary within this space. All of these things and other interactions give advantages to the elements of this place which urges people in charge to think of an evolution that suits what is in this place and what it will be in the future.
Today, more than ever before, the world has become a small cosmopolitan village as
a result of the information, communication and communication revolution that humanity is
witnessing under a globalized capitalist system that has turned itself into
passive
peripheries and active centers.
In the context of the existing global capitalist polarization, peripheral countries suffer
from double backwardness; they are both technologically and structurally backward. Thus,
find themselves faced with the challenge of this complex backwardness, both in the field of
productive forces and in the field of relations of production.
The challenge of underdevelopment, in the first field, requires engagement in world
system centers through capitalist market mechanisms, prevalent there and at the global
level. In addition, the challenge of backwardness, in the second field, requires
disengagement with these centers in order to build new non-capitalist relations of
production, as a structural condition necessary to ensure the development of productive
forces with local resources and competences. This will soon lead to the disconnection of
dependency linkages, and thus national control over the engagement itself. Hence, the
engagement is a necessary element for disengagement, which does not mean autarchic, in
any case.
As a result, logically and objectively, the dialectics of engagement and
disengagement are connected organically to the dialectics of market and planning, in a way
that is related to the need of developing the productive forces and building the productive
relations with a different essence.
