Prominent thinker and Marxian economist Samir Amin has died on Sunday afternoon in Paris from a brain tumor, as reported by his colleague Cherif Salif on Linkedin. Amin was hospitalized on July 21 and returned home on Saturday, yet passed away the following day at the age of 86. “A very shocking news of passing away of Samir Amin after a brief period of memory loss to brain tumor and suffering. The world has lost a towering thinker and activist, a humble comrade and friend,” Salif said on Linkedin. Born in 1931 to an Egyptian father and a French mother, Amin studied in Egypt in Port Said before moving to Paris in 1952 to continue his diploma in political science. Afterwards, Amir continued his studies by obtaining a degree in statistics and then a doctorate in economics. In Paris, he joined the French Communist Party and founded a magazine with other students entitled Étudiants Anticolonialistes (Anticolonial Students). After finishing his thesis in 1957, originally titled, “The origins of underdevelopment – capitalist accumulation on world scale”, he moved back to Cairo to work as a research officer for the government’s “Institution…
