“That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.” MayDevelopmentInvolvedCapitalismHistoricalThrustCommodification Book:Capistalist Civilisation Source: Capistalist Civilisation
“This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The system may prolong its life by slowing down some of the activities which are wearing it out, but death always looms somewhere on the horizon.” MayLongProcessEconomyImpossibleActivityCapitalismDrivenEndlessHorizonSteadySlow DownAccumulationSlowing Author:Immanuel Wallerstein
“Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second coming of Christ, nirvana. It is not a historical prospect, but a current mythology. Socialism, by contrast, is a realizable historical system which may one day be instituted in the world.” WorldMayChristReligiousOne DayCapitalismHistoricalCurrentsMythologySocialismCommunismContrastUtopiaMessiahEschatology Author:Immanuel Wallerstein
“We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can be sure some new historical order will emerge. We cannot be sure what that order will be. Concretely, we may symbolize the first bifurcation as the effect of the world revolution of 1968 which continued up to and including the so-called collapse of the communisms in 1989, the social bifurcation.” WorldYearsFirstsMaySeemsLastsOrderSocialProcessEffectsRevolutionCapitalismHistoricalIncludingCommunismMidstCollapseBifurcation Author:Immanuel Wallerstein
