After Liberalism by Immanuel Wallerstein

After Liberalism Reviews

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  Aslihan

  The book is a collection of essays previously published elsewhere. There is a lot of overlap and repetition because of that. Contentwise, it is a continuum of Wallerstein's previous work and challenges the conventional perceptions regarding liberalism, in theory and in practice, questioning its material objectives and idological framework. A must-read for a thorough understanding of the inner contradictions of liberalism.
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  Eray

  Wallerstein her ne kadar sıcağı sıcağına bir inceleme yaparak oldukça iyi sonuçlar çıkartmış olsa da bazı yerlerde terimsel ayrımlar yapmaktan kaçınmış. Kitabın, SSCB'nin revizyonist olmayan ve revizyonist olan halini direkt Marksizm-Leninizm potasında eritmesi, Wilsoncu UKKTH ve Leninist UKKTH arasında bir bağlantı kurmaya çalışması, liberal sosyalizm terimini geniş tutmaya çalışması gibi eleştirilmeyi hak eden birçok yönü var.
  
  Yine devrimlerin hedeflerinde yaşadığı sorunları, dünya ekonomisinin kondratiyef evrelerini, emperyalizmin liberalizmi kullanma ve genişletme biçimini, fransız devrimi ve sonrası klasik ideolojilerin tahlilini başarılı bir şekilde yapıp, akıcı bir şekilde anlatması da takdire şayan.
  
  Okurken yer yer sabretmek zor olsa da katkı sağlayan bir yapıda diyebilirim.
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  Sinan Öner

  When the United Nations General Assembly meeting continues in New York, reading Wallerstein's "After Liberalism" can be useful! Wallerstein's all books are valuable, useful for understanding the world, for questioning the world, for finding answers to "global" questions. "After Liberalism", Wallerstein's book in 1995, was not "old", now Wallerstein's observations about the world can bring similar questions, similar opinions and similar feelings. Wallerstein writes we live in "After Liberalism", we live in the conditions of world "After Liberalism". On the one hand, the Soviet Socialism "collapses", on the other hand, the Western Liberalism, so, we live in a new world, in "a transitional age", we have to think, we have to improve the new politics for contributing to form "a new world", in 2021, we can ask Wallerstein's questions!
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  Anton

  Everything makes more sense when put into perspective. Very interesting point of view. What makes it interesting is that I seem to notice some changes, fluctuations, as you wish, in a modern society, in politics, quality of living, implicit promises and beliefs of people. Sometimes these changes are small, sometimes they are radical shifts. And this book attempt to make a clear, historical explanation. What compelling about the explanation is that it makes sense. It shows some facets you didn't think about before, because you forgot them. Or even didn't know them, because you've been always living in a certain context, set by long history of humankind. Reading about how this context was set up is eye opening.