Immanuel Wallerstein

As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

The mode of reconciling the promise of ever-increasing reward for the cadres and the demands of the working classes for a quid…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

We must distinguish between the kind of structural transformation that would leave in place (even increase) the realities of the exploitation of…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

It is historically the case that virtually every new zone incorporated into the world-economy established levels of real remuneration which were at…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Are there still other possibilities? Of course there are. What is important to recognize is that all three historical options are really…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they also…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

It seems to me the only pertinent question is: cui bono? It is clear that the size of the privileged strata as…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

When Time magazine conducted a poll in Europe in March [2003] asking which of three - North Korea, Iraq, or the United…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

What can be done? Well, the governments of the world can undertake what amounts to a vast clean-up campaign and a vast…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It…

— Immanuel Wallerstein