The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global Democracy

Giovanni Arrighi, Terry Boswell, Christopher Chase‐Dunn

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 2002 · 131 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

The authors argue that the idea of as collective rationality and popular democracy is far from dead. They describe a spiral of capitalism and socialism - of economic expansion and social progress - that creates repeated opportunities for positive transformation at the global level.