In a structural crisis, the left needs to pursue a policy of seeking in the very short run both state power in order to minimize the pain for the lower 99 percent of the population and in the middle run to pursue a cultural transformation of everyone
Immanuel Wallerstein
Immanuel Wallerstein (September 28, 1930 – August 31, 2019) was an American sociologist and economic historian. He is perhaps best known for his development of the general approach in sociology which led to the emergence of his world-systems approach. He was a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University from 2000 until his death in 2019, and published bimonthly syndicated commentaries through Agence Global on world affairs from October 1998 to July 2019.
He was the 13th president of International Sociological Association (1994–1998).
Politically, he considered himself on the "independent left" and was active in a variety of organizations. He argued that we are in the transition from our existing capitalist world-economy to some new system, and that the great political struggle of our time is about which new kind of systemic order will replace our existing one. A new systemic order could be better or worse, depending on our collective ability to push the worldwide decision in one direction or another. He believed that a crucial element in this is a vast debate about the kind of better system we wish to build, and saw the Reimagining Society Project as one of the ways to further this collective debate.
Trump’s decline is a matter of public debate, between and within all political tendencies. Most people are still seeing what they prefer to see
One left analyst explained to me that PRI was not a party but a culture. What the left must do, he said, was create an alternative culture – in Mexico and indeed everywhere else. Is the Mexican left in the process of doing this?
AMLO put forth a truly left program
A prestidigitator is a public actor who seeks to make viewers believe that what they see is what he is really doing,…
The struggle for power between the United States and the others was basically a struggle for primacy in oppressing the rest of the world’s nations
On May 12, 2018, Muqtada al-Sadr’s list unexpectedly won a plurality in the Iraqi legislative elections
Insults seem to be a tool defining Trumpism, one that he uses constantly and with relish. There are two questions for the analyst of Trumpism. Why does he do it? And do they work?
One outstanding lesson of Columbia is how spontaneous the uprising was
Brazil merits our collective close attention and our active solidary participation
