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> [On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the other hand an extraordinarily skewed distribution system, substituting medium-run threats for short-term threats for the majority of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-wallerstein/on-the-one-hand-there-has-been-a-remarkable-expansion-of-the-total/)

[Immanuel Wallerstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-wallerstein/)

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## More by Immanuel Wallerstein

> [“La science sociale di XIXe siecle nous a legue un terrible heritage, l'idee que els processus se divisent en trois champs separes: le politique,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-wallerstein/la-science-sociale-di-xixe-siecle-nous-a-legue-un-terrible-heritage-l/)

[Immanuel Wallerstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-wallerstein/)

> [Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-wallerstein/uncertainty-is-wondrous-and-certainty-were-it-to-be-real-would-be/)

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> [A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-wallerstein/a-second-variety-concentrated-on-presumed-major-transformations-of/)

[Immanuel Wallerstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-wallerstein/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-wallerstein/i-am-suggesting-that-there-is-and-always-has-been-a-rather-high/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-wallerstein/the-concept-that-one-ought-to-restrict-one-s-political-involvement-to/)

[Immanuel Wallerstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-wallerstein/)

> [One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the debt imbroglio,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-wallerstein/one-by-one-these-governments-came-undone-and-were-forced-into-imf/)

[Immanuel Wallerstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-wallerstein/)

> [The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-wallerstein/the-language-of-intrinsic-human-rights-represented-a-significant/)

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> [Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-wallerstein/wars-between-states-and-people-seem-to-have-existed-under-all/)

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> [Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-wallerstein/production-for-sale-in-a-market-in-which-the-object-is-to-realize-the/)

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> [We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can be sure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-wallerstein/we-seem-to-be-in-the-midst-of-a-process-of-cascading-bifurcations/)

[Immanuel Wallerstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-wallerstein/)

> [Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-wallerstein/scientific-culture-created-a-framework-within-which-individual/)

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> [It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-wallerstein/it-is-not-surprising-that-liberals-believed-in-progress-the-idea-of/)

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> [The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-wallerstein/the-very-concept-of-universal-formal-education-is-a-product-and-a/)

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> [What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-wallerstein/what-is-different-in-capitalist-civilization-has-been-two-things/)

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> [Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-wallerstein/finally-states-have-monopolized-or-sought-to-monopolize-armed-force/)

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