Immanuel Wallerstein - Social Quotes

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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 new historical order will emerge. We cannot be sure what that order will be. Concretely, we may symbolize the first bifurcation as the effect of the world revolution of 1968 which continued up to and including the so-called collapse of the communisms in 1989, the social bifurcation.

Immanuel Wallerstein

The past can be told as it truly is, not was. For recounting the past is a social act of the present done by men of the present and affecting the social system of the present.

Immanuel Wallerstein

And in the present we are all irremediably the products of our background, our training, our personality and social role, and the structured pressures within which we operate.

Immanuel Wallerstein