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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…

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We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.
On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the…
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence.…
The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.
The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been…
What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue…
A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the…
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…
An individual or a group of individuals might of course decide at any time that they would like to invest capital with…
But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by…
That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

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Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said… — Immanuel Wallerstein
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