I support in general the further development by Richard Moore the ideas of
wide coalition with progressive ideology, participation in elections,
special attention to mass-media, national focus and global solidarity, etc.
At the same time within the framework of WST this political program needs a
critical comprehension. I mean that all this designed movement and projected
changes on national and global levels should fit to general theoretical
structures and trajectories of WST (if we admit them to be valid), or they
should change some basic options of these structures and scenario.
In the most classical basis of WST developed by F.Braudel and
I.Wallerstein the history of Western and then Global World System was treated
as a shift of economic (+ political-military-technological) hegemony from
Venezia, Genova, Antwerpen, Amsterdam to London-England and US.
The question is, if the suggested program (as well as World Party, etc)
will lead to a new stage of these shifting of hegemony, or it will be 'the
end of this history'?
The last version had been already suggested by Karl Marx (Communism as
an absolute end of all vicious history of private property, class division
and exploitation). Have we really now more solid arguments than Marx to
persist that NOW the general historical logic will be stopped?
Please present such arguments if you see them. I don't.
In situation without these arguments we have nothing more than to
insert our political programs in the historical logic and to and to
think of the forms of new shift of hegemony.
My position is that core-periphery axis is eternal in human history but
the qualities of the very core can and should be changed.
R.Moore's program seems to be "antisystemic" and "anticore", that's
why I think it is hopelesss.
best regards, Nikolai
Nikolai S. Rozov # Address:Dept. of Philosophy
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