Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion was the opia….

It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism,….

One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the debt imbrog….

It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular sovereignty the new moral ….

It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legiti….

What is surprising is that their ideological opponents, the Marxists - the anti-liberals, the representatives of the oppressed working classes - beli….

What can be done? Well, the governments of the world can undertake what amounts to a vast clean-up campaign and a vast campaign of organic renewal. T….

The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge serv….

If we return to the two faces of individualism - individualism as the spur of energy, initiative, and imagination; and individualism as the limitless….

What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead….

The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been asked for 500 years, w….

Are there still other possibilities? Of course there are. What is important to recognize is that all three historical options are really there, and t….

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….

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

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….

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 ….

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization..

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….

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

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….