I hate this article so much. It makes it sound like a conspiracy theory. It doesn’t explain the organizations and laws explicitly made by the core to exploit the periphery, throughout the ages.
I should make an analogous page on prole wiki
ProleWiki has page about Global North and South, imperial core, and three-world model .
A lot I can contribute. Saved for posterity.
World-systems theory has attracted criticisms from its rivals; notably for being too focused on economy and not enough on culture
Idealist detected
Samir Amin: “Am I a joke to you?”
Imagine being so delusional that you’d think Australia or Britain are anything but a vessel of the US, let alone more important than China or Russia.
It does explain the decisions made though.
Can anyone recommend materials describing and analysing world systems theory? Ideally for a lay person like myself.
Immanuel Wallerstein’s World-Systems Analysis, An Introduction
Thanks, comrade.
Dialectics of Dependency by Ruy Mauro Marini
Wallerstein as mentioned below is p good I recommend Historical Capitalism
Eurocentrism & Maldevelopment & Russia and the Long Road from Capitalism to Socialism
