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From Quotes by 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…
- 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…
- It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the breaking…
- If we return to the two faces of individualism - individualism as the spur of energy, initiative, and imagination; and individualism as the limitless struggle…
- 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…
- 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.
- The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation…
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