A Quote by Immanuel Wallerstein

The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation as either inevitable or just constitute the continuing antinomy of the modern era, joined together in a dialectic which has far from reached its climax in the twentieth century.

Immanuel Wallerstein

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Immanuel Wallerstein
American - Sociologist
Born: September 28, 1930

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J. D. Vance

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