Immanuel Wallerstein Short Quotes

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Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force.

Immanuel Wallerstein
That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

Immanuel Wallerstein
The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.

Immanuel Wallerstein
We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.

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This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

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It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional racism.

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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.

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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
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 of capital for its own sake.

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

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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 of historical capitalism.

Immanuel Wallerstein