Open AccessWhat Will An Integrated Socialist World Look Like? Brief comments on Warren Wagar ' s article: "Toward a Praxisof a World Integration"
Author(s) -
Maria A. Pozas
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of world-systems research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.219
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 1076-156X
DOI - 10.5195/jwsr.1996.64
Subject(s) - commonwealth , capitalism , sovereignty , state (computer science) , character (mathematics) , world system , world economy , democracy , political economy , political science , law and economics , sociology , neoclassical economics , law , economics , politics , computer science , geometry , mathematics , algorithm
World integration under a single state is foreseen by world -system theorists as the only means to save the world from destruction and chaos. The exhaustion of capitalism will lead, in their view, to the substitution of the current system of competing sovereign states by a democratic,liberal and socialist commonwealth. In his article Warren Wagar discusses who will lead this transition, and indirectly suggests that a world system party similar to that of his novel A Short History of the Future (1992) may be the most feasible way to guarantee the socialist character of the new world state