> 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