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

It seems to me the only pertinent question is: cui bono? It is clear that the size of the privileged strata as a percentage of the whole has grown si….

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

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 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….

When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instabil….

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 ….

What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used (inves….

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….

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 eme….

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

A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier ….

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….

The world system is coming to the structural crisis.

The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happe….

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….

Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force..

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

The employment rates are in very bad shape. We vastly underestimate the unemployment.