Immanuel Wallerstein Quotes about Reality

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We must distinguish between the kind of structural transformation that would leave in place (even increase) the realities of the exploitation of labor, and one that would undo this kind of exploitation or at least

We must distinguish between the kind of structural transformation that would leave in place (even increase) the realities of the exploitation of labor, and one that would undo this kind of exploitation or at least radically reduce it

Immanuel Wallerstein

Reality, Transformation, Kind

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.106, Verso

What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being merely a de facto reality. The culture has been different. And secondly, the percentage of the world's population for whom such ascent was possible has gone up. But even though it has grown up, meritocratic ascent remains very much the attribute of a minority.

Immanuel Wallerstein

Reality, Two, Civilization

A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point of time served as a mythologized foil against which to treat the empirical reality of the present.

Immanuel Wallerstein

Reality, Transformation, Treats

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.7, Verso

Immanuel Wallerstein Quotes about Reality

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