Immanuel Wallerstein is rox?

[The Johnny]

Old fart, that is surely to be gone anyday now, but, ive read some fragments of his works, and im really starting to like him (like Weber)... i think hes very precise and cuts thru the bullshit:

...I think that the essential characteristics of the period between 1945 and 1990 can be summarized in four affirmations:

1)USA was the hegemonical power in a unipolar world system. Its power, based in the overwhelming advantage of economic productivity in 1945 and in a system of alliances with occidental Europe and Japan, arrived to its maximum at around 1967-1973

2)USA and the URSS maintained an extremely  structured conflict, carefully contained, formal (but not substantial), in which the URSS acted as a subimperialist agent of USA.

3) The third world imposed to the lack of attention of the USA, the URSS and occidental Europe by reclaiming fuller rights, before the countries in the North anticipated or wanted. Its political power just as its weakness was based on the belief and optimism about the conjunct objectives of auto-determination (anti-colonialism) and national development.

4) The decades of the 70s and 80s were a period of economical swamping, resistance of the USA to its decline and the disillusion of the third world in its own strategy.

The very important situation that opens itself upon us as we enter the first half of the XXI century (when the capitalist world economy will be in total and agitated crisis) is if there will be new movements, with new projects of strategy and programs. It is very possible, but its far from being sure. The reason is that nobody has proposed strategies and programs of action to replace the deceased leninist-wilsonist strategies for the third world, which in themselves were not a thing other than the extensions of the strategy of the XIX century to take the state power, employed bye both the socialists and the nationalists.

I mean, he spells doom in right about the ways that is happening now (i will add more parts of the text within the next days), 15 years later, i think it would be worth it to see his more recent works.

[Cain]

Wallerstein is...interesting.  I haven't had enough time to dig into his World Systems theory in detail, despite very much wanting to, but he can also be read here http://fbc.binghamton.edu/cmpg.htm

[Pope Lecherous]

Wallerstein is...interesting.  I haven't had enough time to dig into his World Systems theory in detail, despite very much wanting to, but he can also be read here http://fbc.binghamton.edu/cmpg.htm

thanks for the link. read the "U.S. Concerns: First Germany, Now Japan?" article.  wasn't really feeling everything he was saying about the military situation in japan, but i'm definitely gonna check out some more of his stuff.

[The Johnny]

Heres a list of the latest articles:

´272. "U.S. Concerns: First Germany, Now Japan?" Jan. 1, 2020

273. "How to Think About China" Jan. 15, 2010

274. "The United States Misreads Brazil's World Policy" Feb. 1, 2010

275. "Chaos as an Everyday Thing" Feb. 15, 2010

276. "Greek Mess, Euromess, Western Nations Mess, World Mess?" Mar. 1, 2010

277. "Ancient Dilemma of the Left: The Case of Brazil" Mar. 15, 2010

278. "Winners and Losers in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock" Apr. 1, 2010

279. "Ahmadinejad says, Thank you America" Apr.15, 2010

280. "Is Europe Imploding?" May 1, 2010

281. "The Anatomy of Fear" May 15, 2010

282. "Iran and North Korea Again: The Perils of Brinkmanship" June 1, 2010

283. "Impossible Choices in a World Depression" June 15, 2010

284. "Why McChrystal Did It" July 1, 2010

285. "Whose Taxes Are Going Up?" July 15, 2010

286. "Ponzi Solitaire" Aug. 1, 2010

287. "Contradictions in the Latin American Left" Aug. 15, 2010

288. "Xenophobia All Over the Place?" Sept. 1, 2010

289. "Democracy - Everywhere? Nowhere?" Sept. 15, 2010

290. "Does Social-Democracy Have a Future?" Oct. 1, 2010

291. "Afghanistan: Does Anyone Want the Burden?" Oct. 15, 2010

292. "Currency War? Of Course," Nov. 1, 2010

293. "Brazilian and U.S. Elections: Opposite Outcomes," Nov. 15, 2010