Samir Amin

Samir Amin (born 3 September 1931) is a contemporary Franco-Egyptian Marxist economist who is notable for his anti- and alter-globalist positions. He denounces the current economic order for placing the world in a periphery-core relationship to the western world. The American hegemony has put international institutions into place, including the European Union, with the express purpose of making socialism illegal and impossible.

External links

• Wikipedia article on Samin Amir.
• "Third World Forum: An Interview with Samir Amin," Z Magazine
• Empire of Chaos Challenged: An Interview with Samir Amin [1]

Some writings by Samir Amin available on-line:

• U.S. Imperialism, Europe, and the Middle East
• Imperialism and Globalization
• World Poverty, Pauperization & Capital Accumulation
• U.S. Hegemony and the Response to Terror
• Empire and Multitude
• A Note on the Death of André Gunder Frank (1929–2005)
• The Political Economy of the Twentieth Century
• The Political Economy of the Twentieth Century, Monthly Review, Volume 52, Issue 02 (June 2000)
• Africa: Living on the Fringe
• The New Challenge of the Peoples' Internationalism
• The Center Will not Hold, the Rise and Decline of Liberalism, Review of Wallersteins The Modern World System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant
• Samir Amin. New Empire? In Search of Alternatives to Global Hegemony of Capital. (video at Red TV)

Critical review:

• A review of Samir Amin's Re-reading the Postwar Period: An Intellectual Itinerary

Audio / video:

• Speech by Amin for the Delphi Initiative.
• Interview by Democracy Now.