Immanuel Wallerstein

Capitalism thrives on the constant expansion of the market.

The semi-periphery plays a crucial role in stabilizing the world-system.

Social change comes from the contradictions within the system.

The university is a key institution in reproducing the world-system's ideology.

Globalization is not new; it's the essence of the modern world-system.

The crisis of 1968 was a turning point in the world-system's history.

We must think in terms of centuries, not decades, to understand systemic change.

The core-periphery structure is the key to understanding inequality.

Antisystemic movements are the hope for a more just world.

The world-economy is anarchic in its political structure.

Economic cycles, Kondratieff waves, shape the long-term dynamics of capitalism.

The decline of U.S. hegemony marks the beginning of the end.

Sociology must be world-systems analysis to be relevant.

The family is embedded in the larger structures of the world-system.

Revolutions are often co-opted by the system they seek to overthrow.

The intellectual is a moral agent in times of crisis.

Capitalism's success is its own undoing.

The periphery provides the resources for core accumulation.

Cultural hegemony is as important as economic dominance.

The future is not predetermined; it is shaped by our actions within constraints.