Transforming the Revolution

by Immanuel Wallerstein

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.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein was a scholar of politics, sociologist, historical social scientist, and world-systems analyst. His bimonthly commentaries on world affairs were syndicated.

Reviews

[Sencer Turunç · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kitap 1984 yılında Türkçe olarak basılmış. Özellikle Wallerstein ve Amin'in periferiye ilişkin saptamaları, güncel gelişmeler ışığında, tekrar okunmaya değer. Bunu okuduktan sonra, Wallerstein'in diğer çalışmalarını da merak etmeye başladım, Ayrıca, Neo-Marxist'leri de bir okumak iyi olur gibime geliyor.. Bi Toni Negri falan iyi gider bunun üzerine.. Gurme yorumu gibi oldu ama olsun..

[Leonardo]

En contra del lugar común que afirma que el proletariado norteamericano es débil por su baja representación partidaria y sindical respecto de Europa y otros lugares, tal vez deberíamos verlo fuerte por esos mismos motivos. El poder de la clase trabajadora reside no en sus instituciones representativas sino en el antagonismo y autonomía de los propios trabajadores.

Ver Giovanni Arrighi, “Marxist Century, American Century: The Making and Remaking of the World Labor Movement”, en Samir Amin, Giovanni Arrighi, Andre Gunder Frank e Immanuel Wallerstein, Transforming the Revolution: SocialMovements and the World System (New York: Monthly Press Review, 1990), 54-95.

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[Jackson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read if only for the Arrighi essay