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The world-famous American scholar Immanuel Wallerstein - founding father of the world-system analysis, the author of the three-volume Modern World-System , a number of other books and a huge number of articles. Director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations (Binghamton, NY, USA) in a concise summary of his views on the capitalist system. I. Wallerstein analyzes the economic functioning of the capitalist system and the state's role in the accumulation of capital, the role of scientific culture as a powerful social weapon the powers that be. Particular attention is paid to the various myths of the capitalist system (the progress of meritocracy, etc...), Shows the mechanism of action of ideological tandem of racism - universalism . I. Wallerstein, in addition, offers a 'balance sheet' achievements and failures of capitalist civilization, as well as an analysis of the internal dilemmas that historical capitalism is not able to solve and which has brought him to the brink.

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