Re: dialectical completion of global apartheid (collectiveimperialism)?

>I am wondering whether the
historical "ReOrient" process diagnosed by Professor Frank is going to
be
violent and whether the next major global war predicted by
world-system-cycle scholars for 2025+ could be between world core
(collective) and world periphery (collective) rather than an
old-fashioned
hegemonial showdown between imperialism X and imperialism Y?

i look for an old fashioned showdown despite the new level of global
capitalist solidarity. this could occur soon if the U.S. bubble economy
collapses and drags the rest down, or later at the end of a K-wave
upswing when competition among core capitalists and states will be more
intense.

the idea of a core/periphery war is most likely in the wake of a
core-core world war. this is Warren Wagar's scenario in A Short History
of the Future (new edition coming from U of Chicago Press).
but popular forces --  a coalition of leftist semiperipheral countries
and transnational popular movements -- need to try to prevent the
disaster of another war among core states. that is a tall order. but it
must be done along with preventing a global ecological disaster.

how can these things be accomplished? is success likely within the
relevant time framework? i dont know but we need to get going.
transnational globalization from below and democratic socialist
movements in the semiperiphery.
chris chase-dunn