[lbo-talk] Empire And The Capitalists: Not In One Accord?

[Brad DeLong]

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...

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"...

Brad DeLong