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Immanuel Wallerstein on the success of the Occupy movement
Occupy Wall Street, the movement against the power of the financial markets and social injustice that started in the US and has spread across the globe, is already a huge success, social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein of Yale University writes in the left-liberal weekly Heti Világgazdaság: "The Occupy Wall Street movement - for now it is a movement - is the most important political happening in the United States since the uprisings in 1968, whose direct descendant or continuation it is. Why it started in the United States when it did - and not three days, three months, three years earlier or later - we'll never know for sure. ... Acutely increasing economic pain not only for the truly poverty-stricken but for an ever-growing segment of the working poor (otherwise known as the 'middle class'); incredible exaggeration (exploitation, greed) of the wealthiest one per cent of the U.S. population ('Wall Street'); the example of angry upsurges around the world (the 'Arab spring', the Spanish indignados, the Chilean students, the Wisconsin trade unions, and a long list of others). It doesn't really matter what the spark was that ignited the fire. It started."
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Immanuel Wallerstein on universalism and imperialism
The American sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein doubts that freedom and democracy are universal values. Interviewed by Olivier Doubre, he suggests that their promotion is a form of imperialism. "The excuses given by [Spanish theologian] Sepúlveda, in the 16th century, to justify conquering Indian land [In South America] are, word for word, the same as those given today for what is termed interference. ... Sepúlveda's arguments are the following: the others are barbarians, we have to protect the innocents (massacred by the barbarians) - the constant justification for all kinds of interference-and, finally, universalism and supposedly universal values must be given free circulation. At the time, it was a question of the evangelisation and expansion of Christianity. Today the values are 'freedom and democracy'. But actually this is the same thing".
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