To quote Brad "cranky today" DeLong Wednesday Aug 26,98: "This is one reason to weep over what Immanuel Wallerstein has done to American sociology over the past generation..."
Doyle Tears? Hmmmm now why has that got you to cry about Immanuel? I went to get my copy of "After Liberalism" copyright 1995, The New Press. I'll provide some words for Brad to weep over, and tell me why Immanuel has ruined a generation. Sort of the F. Scott Fitzgerald of Sociology maybe. Anyhow Why Brad, Why does he make you cry?
Immanuel Wallerstein pages 214 through 215:
"1. The two-step strategy-first take state power, then transform society-has moved from the status of self-evident truth (for most persons) to the status of doubtful proposition.
2. The organizational assumption that political activity in each state would be most efficacious if channeled through a single cohesive party is no longer widely accepted.
3. The concept that the only conflict within capitalism that is fundamental is the conflict between capital and labor - and that other conflicts based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, etc. are all secondary, derived, or atavistic - no longer has wide credence.
4. The idea that democracy is a bourgeois concept that blocks revolutionary activity has been giving way to an idea that democracy may be a profoundly anticapitalist and revolutionary idea.
5. The idea that an increase in productivity is the essential prerequisite of socialist construction has been replaced by a concern with the consequences of productivism in terms of ecology, the quality of life, and the consequent commodification of everything.
6. The faith in science as the foundation stone of the construction of utopia has given way to a skepticism about classivcal science and popular scientism, in favor of a willingness to think in terms of a more complex relationship between determinism and free will, order and chaos. Progress is no longer self-evident." regards, Doyle Saylor