Justin Theodra

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, UK

ABSTRACT

In commemoration of the first anniversary of Samir Amin’s passing, I present the following collated review of the three volumes of Amin’s memoirs, which were only just completed with the posthumous publication of The Long Revolution in 2019. Amin was, I argue, perhaps the first, and certainly the most prolific, global organic intellectual in history. That is, he wrote as a social act, to try and change the world, not simply understand it, and he did so on the world scale proper to his, and indeed our time. His life and work, therefore, ought to be of interest to scholars working to establish the field of global intellectual history, develop critical analyses of global accumulation, and of course, activists interested in a truly global praxis.

ARTICLE HISTORY

Received 28 April 2019

Revised 12 August 2019

Accepted 19 September 2019

KEYWORDS

Samir Amin; imperialism; eurocentrism; delinking; global intellectual history

From: International Critical Thought 2019 9 (4)

Editor: Wang Yi