…A lot of what I thought when I framed things that way, I was really going back to ideas first really put forth by Emmanuel Wallerstein, who was an old colleague of mine at Yale. And he was originally inspired to come up with the idea that every real…

…here. But let me... And a truth in advertising claim before we're here to sell David's book, but I'll tell you that Emmanuel Wallerstein and I have just written a book called With Michael Mann, formerly of the LSC, called Does Capitalism Have a Future?…

…democracy. They opposed it radically. So the whole system of checks and balances is actually created explicitly to prevent democracy. Emmanuel Wallerstein, many years ago, suggested that a revolution is not what we think it is. In fact, all revolutions are…

…over the last year has been the beginnings of a world revolutionary upheaval. I told the great world historian, Emmanuel Wallerstein, who's talked about serious world revolutions, starting with the French Revolution, the World Revolution of 1848, the World…