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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.
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Notes on Contributor
Justin Theodra is a Master’s student at the Scholl of Oriental and African Studies, University of London with an interest in the intellectual history, Marxian political economy, and international organizations. He has published extensively on the life and work of Samir Amin, for example, “The Life and Legacy of Samir Amin” in Countercurrents (2019), and “Review of Samir Amin’s October 1917 Revolution: A Century Later” on Monthly Review Online (2018).