Occupation: Sociologist Birth: September 28, 1930
We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease..
Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to persons or gro….
When Time magazine conducted a poll in Europe in March [2003] asking which of three - North Korea, Iraq, or the United States - was the biggest threa….
This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The system may prolo….
To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and enco….
The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism..
The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capi….
It is, let me say, at the very least by no means self-evident that there is more liberty, equality, and fraternity in the world today than there was ….
The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to use racism-sexism to….
We must distinguish between the kind of structural transformation that would leave in place (even increase) the realities of the exploitation of labo….
On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the other hand an extraord….
I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist ….
Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death..
I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various t….
But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by the non-availability of on….
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite clearly ….