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Historical Quotes by Immanuel Wallerstein
- 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…
- Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.
- 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.…
- Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is, let me say, at the very least by no means self-evident that there is more liberty, equality, and fraternity in the world today…
- 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…
- The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening…
- Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second coming of Christ,…
- It seems to me the only pertinent question is: cui bono? It is clear that the size of the privileged strata as a percentage of…
- It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular sovereignty the new…
- We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can be sure some…
- 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…
More Historical Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- Anger cannot be dishonest. — Marcus Aurelius
- A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. — Francis Bacon
- The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus… — Lord Acton
- Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. — Douglas Bader
- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home… — Edward Abbey
- Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease. — Daniel Barenboim
- The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. — Dave Barry