Capitalism Quote by Immanuel Wallerstein

The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies.

— Robert Gilpin

“There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for…

— Walter Rodney

Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy.…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to change the…

— John Lennon

Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known…

— Joseph Stalin

It is historically the case that virtually every new zone incorporated into the world-economy established levels of real remuneration which were at the bottom…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

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…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Credit reproduces all the fundamental antagonisms of the capitalist world. It accentuates them. It precipitates their development and thus pushes the capitalist world forward…

— Rosa Luxemburg

In the pre-capitalist world, everyone had a place. It might not have been a very nice place, even maybe a horrible place, but at…

— Noam Chomsky

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what…

— Anonymous

Now [in China] within the framework of socialism - which is really social welfare in a social democratic framework - all they want to…

— Harry Magdoff

It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or…

— George Blake

Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of…

— Joseph Stalin

As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little…

— Jung Chang