#world systems

[protoslacker]

World-systems analysis . . . is not a theory but a protest against neglected issues and deceptive epistemologies. It is a call for social change, indeed for “unthinking” the premises of nineteenth century social science. It is an intellectual task that is and has to be a political task as well, because the search for the true and the search for the good is but a single quest.

Immanuel Wallerstein quoted in an article by Nicole Aschoff at Jacobin. The Brilliant Immanuel Wallerstein Was an Anticapitalist Until the End

The late scholar Immanuel Wallerstein left us with an important message — while the need to elect progressive leadership is urgent, the solutions to the ills of capitalism won’t be found in one country.

Also: Noah Tsika at African is a Country. How Africa shaped Immanuel Wallerstein

[jocrude]

> westerners are some of the most politically illiterate people

-Person who can't consume any political material that isn't on reddit, youtube, or twitch

> Noooo the belt and road initiative is helping those poor violent savages in africa become civilised prosperous nations its the chinese man's burden you don't understand they're doing it all out of charity they didn't force these nations to accept it yes i know what neocolonialism is you stupid westerner

[protoslacker]

Wallerstein saw the contemporary struggle as one between regressive forces pushing for another highly unequal system and progressive forces fighting for some form of egalitarianism. He dubbed these contesting forces the spirit of Davos and the spirit of Porto Alegre, respectively. In his opinion, each force had a roughly equal chance of success.

Gregory P. Williams in Jacobin. Immanuel Wallerstein’s Work Can Help Us Understand the Deepening Crises of Capitalism

[paradisetemporarilymisplaced]

I read this paper for class last semester and let me just say, from the bottom of my heart, LOL.

[meesbah]

In this fathom-long body with its perception and thoughts, there is the world, the origin of the world, the ending of the world, and the path to the ending of the world.

The Awakened One

[catruth]

Don’t put your trust in the world system. It is designed to steal your faith. Bill Winston

[uncodar]

"A unique characteristic of our generation is that collectively we have the financial and the ever-improving technical capacity to reduce infectious, child, and maternal mortality rates to low levels universally by 2035, to achieve a 'grand convergence' in health," it says.