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en la teoría social contemporánea. Su compromiso político con el Foro EncuEntros
Social Mundial y las luchas de movimientos sociales a través del orbe le
han dado una prominencia indiscutible como intelectual comprometido.
El problema surge cuando la epistemología racista/sexista de las ciencias
sociales eurocéntricas atribuye el origen de la teoría del sistema-mundo a DEscolonialEs:
un hombre occidental como Wallerstein, invisibilizando otros autores del
Tercer Mundo que previamente habían originado y desarrollado esta teoría.
Esto es algo que, para su propio crédito, el mismo Wallerstein (2000) ha
aclarado públicamente. Pero pareciera que el racismo/sexismo epistémico MEMorias
institucional es sordo y puede más que las propias declaraciones de
Wallerstein (2000). La honestidad intelectual de Wallerstein no corresponde
con la deshonestidad intelectual del racismo/sexismo de las ciencias sociales
eurocentradas. Wallerstein dice lo siguiente acerca del origen de la teoría DE la
del sistema-mundo:

Oliver C. Cox expounded in the 1950s and 1960s virtually all of the
basic ideas of world-system analysis. He is a founding father, albeit one PriMEra
who is hardly recognized as such and is widely neglected, even today.
Let us hope that this collection does something to repair this grievious
oversight…. If Oliver C. Cox has a reputation it is largely for his first
major work Caste, Class and Race. Few scholars are even aware that EscuEla
he subsequently wrote a trilogy on capitalism. I think, however, that the
publication sequence is important in understanding Cox’s contribution.
Cox, a trinitarian who migrated to the United States, sought to understand
the nature of racism, particularly the more virulent form he discovered DE PEnsaMiEnto
here. In seeking an explanation, he decided that the principal analyses
current at the time he was writing were pernicious. He was particularly
unhappy for various reasons with the use of “caste” as an explanatory
variable, primarily because it failed to distinguish a mode of stratification DEscolonial
(caste) which had long existed in some pre-modern historical systems (and,
of course, particularly in the Indian world) and the racism he confronted in
the modern world-system. He decided that the crucial difference between
caste and race as mechanisms of stratification derived from the fact that nuEstroaMEricano