> Found this gem while researching LBO:
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> I've always had a hard time reading Wallerstein. Too many of his
> arguments seem to me to collapse into functionalist mysticism... that
> such-and-such had to happen because the World Economy would have been
> destabilized had it not happen...
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> Thus I've thought of Wallerstein a lot like Edmund Wilson thought of
> Trotsky: that whole sections make no sense at all unless you replace
> "history" and "dialectic of history" with "Providence" and "God"...
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> Brad DeLong
Well, Peter Beilharz, on the editorial board of Thesis Eleven, http://www.sagepub.com/journalEDboard.aspx?pid=202&sc=1 a neo-marxist/critical theory journal out of Australia, says in, "Trotsky, Trotskyism and the Transition To Socialism, " LDT's discourse is marked by an objectivist, mechanistic teleology. I checked out the book from the SF State library last yr. Others examined by Beilharz there are C.L.R. James, Castoriadis, Ernest Mandel and Dunayevskaya.
-- Michael Pugliese