> On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, john gulick wrote:
>
> > Thank you [Louis] for the extraordinarily enlightening disquisition on
> > post-independence Algerian political economy. Has Samir Amin written
> > anything specifically on
> > this subject ? Your analysis sounds very much like what I imagine Amin's
> > would sound like.
In "Eurocentrism" (Eng. trans. 1989) Amin turns his attention to the
cultural / psychological side of "delinking." This is a very rewarding
book despite the wooden quality of the prose, which might equally well
be attributable to the translator or to Amin's relentless reductionism.
A man apparently devoid of nostalgia, Amin shows no pity for the
Arab-Muslim culture that produced him, seeing it now merely as a vast
artifact that categorically dooms hundreds of millions to poverty and
political dysfunction in a world of Western hegemony.
valis
