Samir Amin

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Samir Amin

سمير أمين
Born3 September 1931
Cairo, Egypt
Died21 August 2018
Paris, France


Samir Amin was an Egyptian-French Marxist. He criticized Israel and believed that the Communist Party of China was dedicated to building socialism.[1]

Political career

Amin was born in Egypt in 1931. His mother was French and his father was Egyptian. He joined the Egyptian communist movement and moved to France 1947, where he joined the French Communist Party. He returned to Egypt in 1957 and later moved to Senegal.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Nino Brown, Husayn Karimi (2019-08-12). "Remembering Samir Amin: A Marxist of the south" Liberation School. Archived from the original on 2021-10-26. Retrieved 2022-08-27.