On Samir Amin’s Call for a Fifth International

Abstract

In his prodigious output, from works on capitalist development to analyses of Islamist movements to involvement in the World Social Forum, Samir Amin’s was a consistent voice for struggle against capitalism’s domination of the world and its peoples. In this brief essay I address his call for a shift from movement to organization, indeed, toward a kind of Fifth International (Amin 2018a) and explain why I endorse it.

Keywords

• Samir Amin
• Fifth International
• World Social Forum
• Right-wing Populism