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Capitalist Quotes by Immanuel Wallerstein
- We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.
- Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite…
- The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.
- What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to…
- Are there still other possibilities? Of course there are. What is important to recognize is that all three historical options are really there, and the…
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