Reddit mentions of World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction

Today's youth in American are going to be the catalyst for a global revolution in the coming 25-50 years. This is the beginning thread. The growing economic woes for the young will push them in the direction of revolt. The Internet will play a central role, allowing for the massive communication and organization of these people. It will be revolt of the Digital Natives vs the Immigrants.

The reasoning for the revolution is the ending of the capitalist world-system. The global revolution of 1968 started the transition period, and were still in the thralls of that transition. Read Immaneul Wallerstein's World-System Analysis: An Introduction for more on this. It will blow your mind.

The comment I see is invoking the failure of dirigisme in Brazil. There is a point to be made about the shortcomings of dependency theory as formulated by Cardoso & Faletto and Gunder-Frank... to the extent that Import Substitution Industrialization did not (on its own) move Southern-Cone countries up the international value production chain. It should be noted that Wallerstein's formulation of world systems analysis and contributions to development theory and macrosociology go far beyond that of unequal trade. With regard to the question of unequal trade and comparative advantage one ought to go right back to Marx' Capital and Smith's Wealth of Nations: the terms of trade in the market are completely commensurate - there is no such thing as exploitation or unequal exchange at the point of exchange. This is not Wallerstein's argument. Wallerstein performs an analysis of the political economy of production across value chains. His argument is that the lower on the value chain a country is located, the less the labor of its workers is valued, which is born out in the comparison of wages of skilled vs. unskilled labor. This, in turn, determines the relative benefit a country will reap in dealings with others. With regard to the effectiveness of this sort of analysis as applied to economic development, consider the works of Robert Wade and Alice Amsden. They argue that state policies aimed at moving a country's economic base up the international value chain have been crucial in the successes of East Asian Economies. Wade and Amsden are not specifically world systems theorists, but their work helps to reinforce some assumptions in the approach. As for general arguments against World Systems Analysis, you would have to be more specific, as it is a holistic approach to social science.

Immanuel Wallerstein has said 1968 was the climax.

we had global protests/revolutions in the late 1960s, we went off the gold standard in 1971, oil crisis 1973, white flight began after MLK was killed. In the 1970s totally new thinking became the norm -- Limits to Growth was published in 1972, before that was Silent Spring in 1962.

I think 1968 was absolutely a turning point -- it was the beginning of the rejection of liberalism.

>Here's the thing buckaroo, and I know this might take a few moments to sink through your thick tankie skull, but I really do not give a shit what some dumbfuck tanklord on the internet thinks of me.

Lol, glad you went out of your way to let me know you don't care what I think of you.

How about all the rest of the people (these topics cover global exploitation, so let's just say 5 billion people roughly that these topics directly relate to) that could potentially read this and see you dismissing entire theories because you just feel like it?

I link books, and you scoff. Who is the joke?

On the topic of what has influenced my thinking as a "tankie". Feel free to respond by saying I don't read books, or that the authors are tankies/stalinists/reactionaries/non-marxists/smelly/bad people

www.readsettlers.org

https://www.amazon.com/World-Systems-Analysis-Introduction-Immanuel-Wallerstein/dp/0822334429

https://www.amazon.com/Divided-World-Class-Zak-Cope/dp/1894946413

https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/wiki/debunk

(by the way, I don't care what you think of me. nanny nanny poo poo)

Immanuel Wallerstein - World-Systems Analysis

International Studies major here to say that this video is apologetic pablum. Many assumptions are made, including the implicit assumptions that countries develop in a vacuum and that all countries' trajectory began at the same point in time on a level playing field. The video assumes that strong institutions and cultural beliefs affect degree of development instead of being a product of it. Nowhere is there any mention of core-periphery relationship, history, etcetera.


If you want an introductory understanding of uneven development start with Ankie Hoogvelt's Globalization and the Postcolonial World, Immanuel Wallerstine's World Systems Analysis, and Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism. For an intermediate understanding complete the first 3 then read Adorno/Horkeimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment, Marcuse's One Dimensional Man, and Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation.