{"id":116617,"date":"2018-08-13T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=116617"},"modified":"2018-08-14T14:34:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:34:07","slug":"marxist-economist-samir-amin-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/08\/marxist-economist-samir-amin-dies-at-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Marxist Economist Samir Amin Dies at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Amin was hospitalized on 21 Jul and went back home on Saturday [11 Aug], but he passed away the following day.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_116618\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/samir_amin.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116618\" class=\"wp-image-116618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/samir_amin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/samir_amin.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/samir_amin-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-116618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samir Amin | Photo: Democracy Now<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>12 Aug 2018 &#8211; <\/em>Born in Cairo, Egypt, the prominent thinker died today afternoon in France after serious complications following a brain tumor, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/prof-samir-amin-passed-away-dr-cherif-salif-sy\/?published=t\" >reported his colleague Cherif Salif SY on social media.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA very shocking news of passing away of\u00a0Samir Amin\u00a0after a brief period of memory loss to brain tumor and suffering,\u201d said the fellow economist on Linkedin. \u201cThe world has lost a towering thinker and activist, a\u00a0humble comrade and friend.\u00a0Rest in Power and Peace, dear Comrade Samir,\u201d he added, sending his condolences to Amin&#8217;s family and \u201ccomrades of Third World Forum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He published almost 30 books about capitalism and Marxism, his most important works being Accumulation on a World Scale: A Critique of the Theory of Underdevelopment, A Critique of Eurocentrism\u00a0and Culturalism: Modernity, Religion, and Democracy, and Capitalism in the Age of Globalization, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Son of general practitioners, he studied political sciences, statistics and economics in Paris. He joined the French Communist Party, later took some distance from the Soviet\u00a0interpretation of Marxism, while getting closer to Maoist circles for a time.<\/p>\n<p>He was appointed an advisor for the Planification Minister in Bamako, Mali, in 1960. He taught Economy in the University of Poitiers and Paris in France, as well as in Dakar, where he became the president of the Third World Forum.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/news\/Marxist-Economist-Samir-Amir-Dies-at-86-20180812-0009.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 telesurtv.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 Aug 2018 &#8211; Born in Cairo, Egypt, the prominent thinker died today afternoon in France after serious complications following a brain tumor. Amin was hospitalized on 21 Jul and went back home on Saturday [11 Aug].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":116618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}