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It is simply not true that capitalism as a historical system has represented progress over the various previous historical systems that it destroyed … - Immanuel Wallerstein
" "It is simply not true that capitalism as a historical system has represented progress over the various previous historical systems that it destroyed or transformed. Even as I write this, I feel the tremour that accompanies the sense of blasphemy. I fear the wrath of the gods, for I have been moulded in the same ideological forge as all my compeers and have worshipped at the same shrines.
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About Immanuel Wallerstein
Immanuel Wallerstein (September 28, 1930 – August 31, 2019) was an American sociologist, historical social scientist, and world-systems analyst.
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The essential feature of a capitalist world-economy... is 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 a system production is constantly expanded as long as further production is profitable, and men constantly innovate new ways of producing things that will expand the profit margin.
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