Samir Amin

Samir Amin, president of the Third World Forum, Dakar, is one of the world’s leading Marxist economists. A key figure in the World Social Forum and other international initiatives, his numerous books include Accumulation on a World Scale (1974/1970), The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism (2013), Eurocentrism: Modernity, Religion, and Democracy – A Critique of Eurocentrism and Culturalism (2009), The Law of Worldwide Value (2010), The World We Wish to See: Revolutionary Objectives in the Twenty-first Century (2008).