world party

Network-

Here is another relevant comment from the last go-around.

RH


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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 12:51:14 -0700 (MST)
From: Richard N Hutchinson <rhutchin@U.Arizona.EDU>
To: christopher chase-dunn <chriscd@jhu.edu>
Cc: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: Re: world state

Chris, Warren and all-

The reason I mentioned Samir Amin above all others in an earlier post is
that he has most vociferously kept to the forefront the fact of the
polarization brought about by actually existing capitalism.  

It is much more realistic, because based on this material
fact to think that a global alliance might someday arise in the periphery
than worldwide across the zones.  

So it is one thing to act in an internationalist way in the core, but
another to think that the masses of the core are likely to join.  This is
the primary reason that talk of a world party, coming from core
intellectuals, rings hollow.  

I believe that if such a proposal is to be realized it will have to be
initiated in the periphery.  In the meantime, our plan here in the core
must be more modest, not in the sense of not putting forth maximum effort,
but in the sense of not being so presumptuous as to think that we will
>>lead<< the New International.

Toward true internationalism,

Richard Hutchinson