Capitalism Quote by Immanuel Wallerstein

I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge.

— Luc Sante

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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Socialism is a fundamentally different social system where the world's resources are not controlled by a greedy, undemocratic oligarchy. This is not the same…

— Kshama Sawant

Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier…

— 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…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in…

— Joseph Beuys

In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class…

— James Henry Hammond

The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of…

— Michael Korda