The End of the World as We Know It

In the more than one hundred and fifty years since Marx and Engels wrote the Manifesto, Marxists' relationship with the "crisis of capitalism" has been amplified by the slogan "There is a wolf!" It was like the story of the shepherd who shouted: That giant, shocking and destructive crisis just won't come. Marxists also do not stop mistaking every temporary, partial crisis for the expected final crisis.

Wallerstein's determination of "The End of the World as We Know It" is such a "There is a wolf!" because he does not look at life as a determined scenario. Not a cry: Wallerstein, who claims that "World Capitalism", which existed only at a conceptual level until the end of the twentieth century, turned into a practical phenomenon with the end of the bipolar world, says that this transformation is the end of the World of Capitalism as we know it. This is also the end of the World of Information, which has dominated the ways we perceive and comprehend the world that has existed until today, over theological concepts with the rise of capitalism, that is, the understanding of science based on Newtonian physics.

Saying that the first decades of the 21st century will be the scene of an upheaval in both senses, Wallerstein points out that this upheaval stands before us as an uncertainty: An uncertainty with its dangers and possibilities... On the one hand, the conditions of this period of uncertainty, but on the other hand, our reality. This is a future that will be shaped depending on what we want, how we make our choices, and our creativity... More precisely, it calls us all to think systematically and clearly about what could happen and what we really want.



Number of Pages: 288

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Metis Publishing

First Print Year: 2016

Number of Pages: 288

Language Turkish