Wallerstein Quotes

Imagination is usually nothing but the search for middle run profits by those to whom short run channels are blocked. When — Immanuel Wallerstein

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

Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system. — Immanuel Wallerstein

The employment rates are in very bad shape. We vastly underestimate the unemployment — Immanuel Wallerstein

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must. — Immanuel Wallerstein

I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors. — Randi Zuckerberg

Don't do the natural thing, the impulsive thing. That is usually wrong. — Dale Carnegie

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

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

You create a team by binding each to each, acting as glue, not as god. — Karen Lord

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

Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language. — Charles Dickens

Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that. — Burning Spear

The world system is coming to the structural crisis — Immanuel Wallerstein

We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as ordinary blessings. — Joan Didion

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

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization. — 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