Yes, he is a _world system marxist_, as i said..
Mine
>Michael Perelman wrote:
> >He was taking pains to distinguish his own work from Marxism.
>
> >Mine Aysen Doyran wrote:
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> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > > >I heard Wallerstein speak recently. He was contemptuous of >Marxists,
> > >
> > > >implying that they had a simplistic way of looking at the world.
> > > >Obviously, some of us do, but his characterization was all-inclusive.
> >
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> > > Michael Perelman
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> > I have heard Wallerstein speak very recently too, but I don't remember
> > him implying that "Marxists had a simplistic way of looking at the
> > world". As a Marxist, of course, he is critical of *certain* brands of
> > marxist theory-- the orthodox developmental model-- which dominates the
> > sociology of development literature with varying degrees, and takes the
> > *nation state* as the unit of analysis instead of the *world system*.
> > Accordingly, part of IW's criticism is related to whether societies have
> > their independent logic of capitalist development or relate to one
> > another within a world system. Barrington Moore and Brenner type
> > Marxists are included in the former category, although Marx, from a world
> > systemic perspective, had the world system, not the nation state, in mind
> > when he was analyzing British capitalism. There is a fine line between
> > world system marxists and marxists. The former subcribes to the
> > core-periphery model. I find this a very powerful analysis of
> > contemporary imperialism and capitalism, as far as the *sociology* of
> > modern capitalism goes. You may disagree with it as an economist, but one
> > needs to debate the *premises of* the world system theory first to be
> > able to criticize it. If you disagree, fine; but you can state the
> > rationality grounds of why you disagree; theory wise.
> >
> > Mine
> >
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> > Mine Aysen Doyran
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Department of Political Science
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Nelson A. Rockefeller College
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