Immanuel Wallerstein Quotes
Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.
The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.
When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become possible.
This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.
The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.
People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.
That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.
The real threat to U.S. military power is nuclear proliferation, because if every little country has nuclear weapons it becomes very tricky for the United States to engage in military action.
The employment rates are in very bad shape. We vastly underestimate the unemployment
I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism.
It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional racism.
What could me more plausible than a line of reasoning which argues that the explanation of the origin of a system was to achieve an end that has in fact been achieved?
We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.
The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumulation of capital for its own sake.
I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy.
The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.
