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…

- Immanuel Wallerstein

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

- Immanuel Wallerstein

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…

- 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, ni…

- Immanuel Wallerstein

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…

- Immanuel Wallerstein

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

- Immanuel Wallerstein

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…

- Immanuel Wallerstein

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

- Immanuel Wallerstein

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…

- Immanuel Wallerstein