By Immanuel Wallerstein
Immanuel Wallerstein's hugely influential, multi-volume opus, The smooth World-System, is one among this century's maximum works of social technological know-how. An cutting edge, panoramic reinterpretation of world historical past, it strains the emergence and improvement of the fashionable international from the 16th to the 20 th century.
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To c. D. in what he calls "direct agricultural consumption," that is, a system of partial selfsufficiency in which, while most people produce their own food, they also supply it to the nonagricultural population as barter. 11 What we should envisage then, when we speak of western European feudalism, is a series of tiny economic nodules whose population and productivity were slowly increasing, and in which the legal mechanisms ensured that the bulk of the surplus went to the landlords who had noble status and control of the juridical machinery.
Claude Calieri, "A propos de la discussion sur la feodalite," La Pensee, No. -aout 1956, 95-96. 1H Cahen, ibid. p. 96. A. B. Hihhert similarly argues that: "Roth fact and theory suggest that in earlier medieval times trade was by no means a solvent of feudal society, but that it was a natural product of that society and that feudal rulers up to a point favored its growth. . Feudalism could never dispense with mere hams. . There were two reasons win. . " "Reply by Maurice Dobb," Science and Society, XIV, 2, Spr.
This led me into two great debates. " Phrased another way, are classes the only significant operating units in the social and political arenas? Or, as Weber argued, are they only one of a trinity of units—class, statusgroup, and party—which exist, the interactions among which explain the political process? Although I had my prejudices on the subject, I found, like others before me, that neither the definition of these terms nor the description of their relations was easy to elucidate. I felt increasingly that 3 4 The Modern World-System this was far more a conceptual than an empirical problem, and that to resolve the debate, at least in my own mind, I would have to place the issues within a larger intellectual context.