Highlights of some of the best commentary presented on Against the Grain in 2019, featuring Max Haiven on revenge in a capitalist context; Helena Sheehan on European and Soviet communism; Manu Samnotra on civilization and political resistance according to Gandhi; Michael Burawoy on Pierre Bourdieu and Karl Marx; and Margaret Hunter on what she calls … Continued


Against the Grain

Remembering Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-2019) was a radical sociologist and economic historian who pioneered world-systems analysis. Although he analyzed what he called the capitalist world-economy over its centuries-long development, he remained a staunch, and globally influential, critic of capitalism. Immanuel Wallerstein, World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction Duke University Press, 2004 Immanuel Wallerstein, The Essential Wallerstein The New Press, … Continued