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— Immanuel Wallerstein"This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position."
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The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to use racism-sexism to prevent universalism from moving too far in the direction of egalitarianism; to use universalism to prevent racism-sexism from moving too far in the direction of a caste system that would inhibit the work force mobility so necessary for the capitalist accumulation process.
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The system may prolong its life by slowing down some of the activities which are wearing it out, but death always looms somewhere on the horizon.
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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