Capitalism Quote by Immanuel Wallerstein

“La science sociale di XIXe siecle nous a legue un terrible heritage, l'idee que els processus se divisent en trois champs separes: le politique,…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

— 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

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

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

One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the debt imbroglio,…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and…

— 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…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can be sure…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

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…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

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

— Immanuel Wallerstein