Transforming the Revolution

by Immanuel M. Wallerstein

Overview

In this successor volume to the widely read Dynamics of Global Crisis, the authors engage in a provocative discussion of the history and contemporary dilemmas facing the movements that are variously described as antisystemic, social, or popular. The authors believe that these movements, which have for the past 150 years protested and organized against the multiple injustices of the existing system, are the key locus of social transformation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780853458081
Publisher:	Monthly Review Press
Publication date:	01/01/1990
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.43(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Introduction: The lessons of the 1980s	1
I.	Geopolitics: post-America
1	North Atlanticism in decline	19
2	The Reagan non-revolution, or the limited choices of the US	26
3	Japan and the future trajectory of the world-system: lessons from history	36
4	European unity and its implications for the interstate system	49
5	1968, revolution in the world-system	65
6	Marx, Marxism-Leninism, and socialist experiences in the modern world-system	84
7	The Brandt report	98
8	Typology of crises in the world-system	104
9	The capitalist world-economy: middle-run prospects	123
II.	Geoculture: the underside of geopolitics
10	National and world identities and the interstate system (with Peter D. Phillips)	139
11	Culture as the ideological battleground of the modern world-system	158
12	The national and the universal: can there be such a thing as world culture?	184
13	What can one mean by Southern culture?	200
14	The modern world-system as a civilization	215
15	The renewed concern with civilization(s?)	231
	Index	238