Immanuel Wallerstein's Contribution to Mondology and the Critical Theory of Global World System Transition
Immanuel Wallerstein's Contribution to Mondology and the Critical Theory of Global World System Transition

Summary/Abstract: The author focuses on the origin and development of the world-system theory of Immanuel Wallerstein, and especially his contribution to start a critical theory of global transition and mondology as a transdisciplinary science about the world and man. The basic Wallerstein's thesis is: when one system enters the field of transition, the direction and the result of its movement are not certain. Different alternatives of social changes from progression to regression are possible. The social changes in the fields of transition depend on numerous subjective and objective factors but also on the moral and political roles of social agents in the social struggles in the contemporary world. In the focus of Wallerstein's analysis there are global changes of capitalism as a historical system and the possible transition - within the social development - into the new subcapitalistic system. In the given context, Wallerstein analyses the role of antisystemic movements in the processes of global transition.

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