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I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the separation of the… — Ayn Rand
All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are… — Ayn Rand
A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system. — Immanuel Wallerstein
What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used (invested) in a… — Immanuel Wallerstein
An individual or a group of individuals might of course decide at any time that they would like to invest capital with the objective of… — Immanuel Wallerstein
But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by the non-availability of… — Immanuel Wallerstein
That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything. — 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 encouraged, in their… — Immanuel Wallerstein
To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism.… — 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 the bottom of… — Immanuel Wallerstein
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… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization. — Immanuel Wallerstein
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… — 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 particular state constitutions… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to persons or groups,… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force. — 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 of… — Immanuel Wallerstein
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… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism. — Immanuel Wallerstein
Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion was… — 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 self-justification of a… — 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 as… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism… — Immanuel Wallerstein
This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The system may prolong… — Immanuel Wallerstein

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