Varn Vlog : Julian Assele on Wallerstein and World Systems

Jules is back. Julian Assele ( @Catholicclod) is a writer and researcher who writes on socialism and Marxism. We discuss Emmanuel Wallerstein and the World Systems Analysis.
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[@likesecondnaturetome3061]

31:49 Interestingly, Graeber also echoes this in ‘Debt’ where he talks about the Chinese instances of Monastery Capitalism.

[@jonasfringe2793]

Very insightful. Really got to get a better grasp on Wallerstein.
Had a brief look into the late 1980s debate with Balibar ("Race, Nation, Class") not so long ago (following some frustration with the latter in a different context). Agree that methodological and practical nationalism appears as a (self reinforcing) historical product, not a priori in the more general framework.
Globalist me, again, used to think the establishment of a world market, 49:19, did bear great revolutionary, and thus reactionary potential. And did we get ripples, spreading right into the core, for decades now...
Your concern on populism as nationalism towards the end is deeply shared. Social chauvinism needs to be combatted, but that did not work out great last time... In Europe, we come to observe weird alliances with ongoing war and energy price inflation now.

[@gregsimmons3323]

Commenting from Canada, where flows of trade and the physical infrastructure that supports them are far greater between Canadian provinces and US states than they are between provinces themselves - a salient example of the importance of locating a systems analysis at both the inter- and intra- state level….

[@borisnegrarosa9113]

Excellent conversation. Great video.

[@gengar1187]

I mean it still might happen the next time, but it crucially shows potential

[@tmsphere]

I'm a bit more cynical than Jules on the question of learning from movement failure causing historic shift, movement blooming and failure has been happening for centuries ppl get cynical and jaded and more conservative as a result of witnessing movement failure first hand, more ppl switch to praying and its getting really popular to talk about the "end of days".

[@galek75]

I don't agree on everything that you said, but I do think that this quasi-eschatology about the end of days really is cringe.

[@gengar1187]

Best Floyd protest take

[@markowen4326]

Dang, I missed the release of vol. 4, will have to dig up a copy. Read the other 3 in the late 90s.

[@allypoum]

Who was it who said something like revolutions often occur at moments when most "experts" of revolution - on both sides of the class divide - predict it to be least likely? Might have been Engels, I'm not the expert...

[@franciscoleitao66]

the crossover i never thought i needed

[@gengar1187]

Dang

[@r__9_1____a34]

Yo this white guy is based, just comes out swinging with black America is an internal colony. King! 👑💖

[@nikolademitri731]

I guess my problem is always that I don’t know how to hold the Dems accountable. By not voting for them? Aren’t they just going to get a different base to do so, which they’re basically already doing? How do serious leftists (whatever the “tendency”, and so on) actually effect that? Do we have the numbers? These are honest questions, because I absolutely understand the argument being made, which you’ve made many times, but it’s hard for me to not feel like either way we’re screwed for a looooonng time..
I’m not saying that you’re wrong, just that I don’t know the answer. I think some efforts need to be made to start a serious leftist party, whether we call it socialist or not (I feel like we’re dishonest if we don’t, and more screwed if we do… I think a labor party 2.0 is in order), and simultaneously organize labor, because we definitely need one of these things, probably both. I just don’t see how to not be, at least short/medium term, pretty black pilled..
Edit: also, I really enjoyed this, and was waiting for it for a while, but I definitely would like to know more on World Systems Theory. Another convo with Jules and Sean KB, if there’s anything left worth exploring in it? Maybe a basics video? In the meantime, I have a Wallerstien book, “World System Analysis, An Introduction”, I need to get to. ✌️