Samir Amin

African Revolutionary Writers, Part 9a

Samir Amin

Samir Amin

Samir Amin is an African Revolutionary Writer born in Egypt, fluent in French, often published in English, and a scholar who has illuminated the revolutionary potential and imperative for half a century in Africa.

The downloadable text below, coming from an article in Al Ahram, begins with the following statement, unfortunately no less true today than when it was written in 2003: “The United States is governed by a junta of war criminals…”

This article is a thorough-going denunciation but also a scientific and very well-informed analysis of US society and history, contained in only four pages. It is also a call to arms.

Samir Amin is a living example of the moral and humanist clarity that is characteristic of the African Anti-Imperialist intellectual cadre. According to Wikipedia he has written more than 30 books.

He remains a stalwart.

Please download and read the text via this link:

Samir Amin, 2004, The American Ideology (3214 words)

Further reading:

Shivji, Struggle for Democracy, 2003, with Malik, Struggle for Culture, 2002 (5035 words)

Ahmed Ben Bella, People's Liberation Unachieved, 2006 (6778 words)

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Speech on Suez, 15 September 1956 (837 words)