Thank you for the amazing interview! The significance of this video has to be better recognized! This debate between Davo's Spirit vs Porto Alegre's spirit is of global consequences, shaping the very structure of the modern world.
we've already had the answer for many years now: hordes of office workers shuffling papers, sitting in useless meetings, writing useless papers. If push comes to shove, we could fight useless wars. Really, I'm not joking
I am still working on my 4 post cold war identification of countries. Or actually 4 different types of countries during the era of American global hegemony. It was an application to work for an American agency but I will just work on it myself.
Someone please explain to me how the United States can't use it's military. Rightly or wrongly, the US does use it's military. What am I missing? I really am willing to understand.
He means that the use of US martial force will not ultimately change the overall, long-term economic trends affecting the world. I think multinational capital is indeed creating transnational effects across states but that the state is itself will continue to be a dominant form of independent agency for some time. Therefore I think his predictions are too hasty: they may be more relevant in 100 years or so, when AI and other tech allow for a new wave of transnational connectivity, trade, contracts, organization that challenges the primacy of the nation state in organizing the balance of power. That is a long ways off in my view.
Wallerstein seems to analyze only the political and economic relations within the capitalist world-system. He never mentions climate change and exhaustion of resources as factors at work in the 21st century. Ecologically, the Earth/human system does not need more growth of the human population and the attendant releases of fossil carbon and other polluting wastes.
We have huge resources for any population growth but the ptoblem is the Cap.Monopolistic Zyonistic system controlled by few people. His mistake is that he thinks tha cap.sys. is the democratic one which is not at all.
Various industries employ loads of people in places like India to do customer service & manufacturing. I buy those products, so do you. We're all watching this on our phones, laptops, & tablets.
8:40 It is true that people want the benefit of safety, without the use of the force (& risk to our own troops) that creates that safety. People don't like to see how hypocritical they're being.
3:03 I don't see that at all! In many countries, almost anything you want to buy is readily available. Inexpensive clothes that look good, jewelry at all price ranges, computers & cell phones in every size & price range, cars, and houses if you can afford them.
You obviously haven't been in a lot of countries :) what you described is just couple of western countries that sucked the life of people around the world for centuries to make their lives better. But when the circle is broken that's gonna fall apart too.
8:00 About this I partially agree: I don't automatically trust governments of ANY country to have only the best reasons to respond to terrorism, for instance, with military force. I don't trust governments to use their military powers effectively, with the proper amount of force to only protect their people & not subdue other countries. But the fact is that the terrorist attack of 9/11/01 was not repeated in the US. Chances are, it would have been, had the US government not retaliated with great force. Meeting your enemy on their own level is a necessary evil.
Is that because if American military intervention or because they overhauled aviation security following the attacks. How can one ever confidently know what the causative agent was?
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We have not found yet a system that works other than some form of capitalism. The other systems dont take into account the risk reward, personal incentives to do stuff, human nature, etc. The bigger problem right now is that we only have simulacra of capitalism nowadays, with globalist neoliberalism, destruction of tightly knit communities and widespread unchecked financial schemes, living on credit, etc. Get the banks in check! Now!In other news, no matter the system there will always be winners and losers, the problem with socialism is that the losers are the majority and the winners are punished, which is beyond stupid.
He is not passing a moral judgement on capitalism and whether or not it SHOULD continue to be the world-system - he is observing that it CAN'T. The numbers no longer add up. It is ending, pretty obviously, and all of our actions (including denying reality) are going to decide the shape of the thing that is even now replacing it.
These things could not be available if there weren't someone at the top making profit, & workers at the bottom bringing home a paycheck for making & selling such goods. Consumerism drives the capitalist economy, which is what keeps even comparatively poor people in the US fed & clothed.
3:40 "No one wants the continuation of this system" Seriously? Every person with a viable job in anything related to consumerism, be it manufacturing, sales, marketing, etc, wants or should want the continuation of this system. Maybe I don't understand what this man is saying? If I do understand him correctly he certainly does not take into account what I want- the potential for reasonable financial sucess.
Did you listen to 5:25? Your ‘skilled’ job will soon become obsolete , and no longer needed , due to the dynamics of capital accumulation. The movie Office Space was a brilliant critique of the drudgery of most ‘middle class’ positions in a winner - take - all economy . Plus, while the planet is burning and billions of people are facing death and starvation in the near future from climate change or perhaps nuclear war , how about you think a bit less of your own personal economic advancements, and more about what kind of life is worth living for humanity ?
The key figure is the global employment rate ("employment to population ratio") which has been falling for two decades, according to the World Bank: data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.ZS The UN / International Labour Organization (ILO) is also documenting rising global unemployment levels (which is not the same): www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_443500/lang--en/index.htm The nature of jobs is changing as well, with more and more "informal" jobs without contracts and social security: www.ilo.org/global/research/global-reports/weso/2015-changing-nature-of-jobs/WCMS_368626/lang--en/index.htm%20/%20rwer.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/world-employment-and-social-outlook-2015-the-changing-nature-of-jobs/
no, the argument he is making is that unemployment in the world is going up and that this is proof that capitalism doesn't work. he gives absolutley no reason to be blaming world unemployment increases on capitalistic america rather than the governments of north korea, china, venezuela, the entire middle east (sans israel), etc. how did this guy get a job at yale? if america had 7 years of the most socialistic president and policy shift, that it had ever experienced, then how would a decline in world unemployment be a negative sign of capitalism, even if america's economic policies are so impactful of the entire world? or maybe capitalism in one country is such a virus that it would just bring the rest of the world to ruin. waste of 25 minutes of my life right there.
I would agree that the U.S. system is not "capitalist" in the traditional Adam Smith-sense and is a state-capitalist corporatist plutocracy...but because of decades and decades of Cold War propaganda calling the U.S. a "capitalist" economy, when Wallerstein says "capitalism", he means a "state-capitalist corporatist plutocracy".
who owns these corporations? if you have a 401K, are you are an "egregious capitalist exploiter?" actually most of the goofs miss something critical - we don't and a capitalist system. it appears to act like a system, but it is not. what we see is a myriad of entities interacting with one another in "emergent" behavior. hopefully the next generation of philosophers will recognize what we are learning now about emergent behavior. looking at any systemic aspect of the economy and how individual group together, allows a fractional view at best. looking at the world through an imaginary, utopian unicorn view, does not give and objective view, it results in the confusion of post modernism.
Спасибо за интересное погружение в тему от самого классика, мир-системный анализ ныне очень многих волнует. Возможно, поставленные Валлерстайном и после него вопросы будет легче решать если принять во внимание некоторые новые отечественные исследования? Вот такую книгу, интересно, видели ли? Колташов В.Г. - Капитализм кризисов и революций. Как сменяются формационные эпохи, рождаются длинные волны, умирают реставрации и наступает неомеркантилизм.-2019 (доступна тут: vk.com/wall-160561774_170 ) "О сути этой книги многое сказано в ее подзаголовке. Она посвящена следующим важным вопросам: иерархии, роли и цикличности экономических кризисов; длинным волнам в развитии торгового и промышленного капитализма; разбору этапов великих модернизационных революций эры капитализма в контексте больших экономических кризисов и стоящих за ними законов. Акцент сделан на анализе таких фаз революций, как реставрация и славная революция, фаз отнюдь не случайных и экономически необходимых. Последний вопрос книги - современный экономический кризис, являющийся переломным и несущим миру новый, неомеркантильный порядок. Первым делом дан разбор того, как в реальности происходила смена рабовладельческого и феодального общества и какую роль здесь сыграли экономические кризисы III и XIV вв. Сопоставляя их, автор показывает причины успеха торгового капитализма в Европе и создания мирового рынка. Открывая кризис 1770-х гг., книга обнажает и механизм, создавший промышленный капитализм. Продвигаясь с анализом экономических событий XIX-XXI вв., автор дает теорию больших циклических кризисов, сменяющих длинные волны развития (волны Николая Кондратьева)."
