In The Capitalist World-Economy Immanuel Wallerstein focuses on the two central conflicts of capitalism, bourgeois versus proletarian and core versus periphery, in an attempt to describe both the cyclical rhythms and the secular transformations of capitalism, conceived as a singular world-system. The essays include discussions of the relationship of class and ethnonational consciousness, clarification of the meaning of transition from feudalism to capitalism, the utility of the concept of the semi peripheral state, and the relationship of socialist states to the capitalist world-economy. This book is the first in a three volume collection of Wallerstein's essays. The Politics of World-Economy (1984) elaborates on the role of states, the antisystemic movements and the civilizational project. Geopolitics and Geoculture (1991) analyses both the events leading up to the collapse of the Iron Curtain, and the subsequent process of perestroika in the light of Wallerstein's own interpretations, and the ways in which the renewed concern with culture is a product of the changing world-system.
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A collection of essays on the working of capitalism as a world system, over historical time as well as the contemporary era, focuses on the conflicts between core and periphery and bourgeois and proletarian.
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This collection of essays published in the 1970s covers in short and accessible form some of the most important and innovative of Wallerstein's ideas. The first essay is a brilliant exposition of Wallerstein's view that the only way to understand history is to look not at individual nations but at the larger world system in which the nations exist.
There is an essay on ethnicity, class and race which is probably the clearest explanation in the literature for the Marxist view that ethnicity is really determined by class. In Wallerstein's view, the notion of 'people of color' has nothing to do with physical phenotype, but everything to do with the class position within the world-system of the country that person is from. Thus 'pan-Africanism can include the white skinned Arabs of North Africa, but can exclude white skinned Afrikaaners of South Africa.'
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The growth within the capitalist world-economy of the industrial sector of production, the so-called 'industrial revolution', was accompanied by a very strong current of thought which defined this change as both a process of organic development and of progress. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
semiperipheral countries, semiperipheral states, socialist world government, semiperipheral country, semiperipheral status, developmentalist perspective, semiperipheral areas, sensate culture, core producers, core capitalist countries, world surplus, professional strata, core countries, indigenous bourgeoisie, surplus appropriation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Third World, Latin America, Nguyen Nghe, South Africa, Mao Tse-Tung, Great Britain, Ivory Coast, Second World War, Black Africa, Frantz Fanon, Middle Ages, Russian Revolution, Soviet Central Asia, First World War, North America, Monthly Review Press, Samir Amin, Adam Smith, European Russia, French Communist Party, Karl Marx, West African, Fernand Braudel New!
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The growth within the capitalist world-economy of the industrial sector of production, the so-called 'industrial revolution', was accompanied by a very strong current of thought which defined this change as both a process of organic development and of progress. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
semiperipheral countries, semiperipheral states, socialist world government, semiperipheral country, semiperipheral status, developmentalist perspective, semiperipheral areas, sensate culture, core producers, core capitalist countries, world surplus, professional strata, core countries, indigenous bourgeoisie, surplus appropriation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Third World, Latin America, Nguyen Nghe, South Africa, Mao Tse-Tung, Great Britain, Ivory Coast, Second World War, Black Africa, Frantz Fanon, Middle Ages, Russian Revolution, Soviet Central Asia, First World War, North America, Monthly Review Press, Samir Amin, Adam Smith, European Russia, French Communist Party, Karl Marx, West African, Fernand Braudel New!
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- World Inequality (Black Rose Books) by Immanuel Wallerstein in Front Matter, and page 151
- Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter on page 151, and page 235
- Crisis of Our Age by Pitirim A. Sorokin on page 231, and page 232
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