Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system..

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

So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they al….

The mode of reconciling the promise of ever-increasing reward for the cadres and the demands of the working classes for a quid pro quo for their loya….

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, ni….

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited….

Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy. In such ….

What could me more plausible than a line of reasoning which argues that the explanation of the origin of a system was to achieve an end that has in f….

As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where particular sta….

Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the c….

For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of privilege, the world they know is alm….

To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism. Unequal exchange is a….

The real threat to U.S. military power is nuclear proliferation, because if every little country has nuclear weapons it becomes very tricky for the U….

The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to acc….

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization..

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

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal ap….

An individual or a group of individuals might of course decide at any time that they would like to invest capital with the objective of acquiring sti….

The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumula….

It is historically the case that virtually every new zone incorporated into the world-economy established levels of real remuneration which were at t….

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