African Revolutionary
Writers, Part 9a
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 the revolutionary 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.
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The above is to
introduce the original reading-text: Samir Amin, 2004, The American
Ideology.
