Long Reads: Immanuel Wallerstein's World-System w/ Gregory Williams

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🗓️ 24 May 2024

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When Immanuel Wallerstein died in 2019, he was one of the most influential thinkers about the crisis-ridden development of global capitalism. People who might never have read one of his books will still find themselves referring to the core and the periphery of the capitalist world-system.

Gregory Williams joins Long Reads to take a deeper look today at Wallerstein’s life and work as a radical intellectual. Gregory is a professor of political science and international relations at Simmons University in Boston. He’s also the author of Contesting the Global Order: The Radical Political Economy of Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein.

Read Gregory's piece for Jacobin, "Immanuel Wallerstein’s Work Can Help Us Understand the Deepening Crises of Capitalism" here: https://jacobin.com/2023/12/immanuel-wallerstein-world-systems-theory-development-cycles-capitalism-crisis-history

Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by features editor Daniel Finn. Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.

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0:17.0	Hello, you're very welcome to Long Reed's, a Jacobin podcast where we look in depth of political topics and thinkers. My name's Daniel Finn, and the features editor here at Jacobin, and I'll be presenting the show.
0:23.0	We're listening to the world.
0:30.0	We're listening to World Destruction by Africa Bambata and John Leigen.
0:34.8	One of the great songs about a world system engulfed in crisis.
0:39.6	You might remember it from the first episode of the Sopranos that was released after the 9-11 attacks.
0:46.0	Forty years old this year, world destruction still sounds urgently topical in our age of polycrisis as the historian Adam II's dubbed it. When the money old Waller's team, and movies, religions and costs,
1:05.0	Yes, the world is pegged for destruction.
1:08.0	Is it nuclear war?
1:09.0	What are you asking for?
1:11.0	When the money will Wallerst team died in 2019 he was one of the most influential
1:18.3	thinkers read the crisis-ridden development of global capitalism. People who might never have read one of his books
1:25.6	will still find themselves referring to the core and the periphery of the capitalist world system.
1:31.1	We're going to take a deeper look today at Wallerstein's life and work as a radical
1:36.7	intellectual. Our guest today is Gregory Williams. He's a professor of political science and international relations at
1:45.0	Simmons University in Boston. He's also the author of, Contesting the Global Order, The
1:51.0	Radical Political Economy of Perry Anderson and Emmanuel Wallerstein.
1:57.0	To begin with, could you tell us something about Emmanuel Wallerstein's background and his pathway towards becoming an academic.
2:05.0	Well, it's really great to be here on the program.
2:07.9	And I think that the short answer of this can be said in two words, New York. As Emmanuel himself later said he was a
2:18.3	complete New Yorker by taste by temperament. He was also just inter-personally, right, outgoing. He was opinionated. He could be very charming even when he disagreed with people and in many ways in the best sense he embodied the city in which he was born in 1930.
2:40.0	He also loved languages and the cultural diversity of the city.
2:44.8	His family wasn't from there, however.
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