Wallerstein

The Russian (see contribution: Russian feudalism) passed me the book After Liberalism of politologist Immanuel Wallerstein (I didn't know him). I have read chapter What hope Africa?. Pass you the last paragraph:

"I do not say Africa will inevitably succeed as it tries. Africa has - we all have - at best a fifty-fifty chanse of coming out of this transition with something better. History is not necessarily on our side, and if we think it is, this belief will work against us. But we are all very much an important and integral part of this process. And if we engage in it in the right way, we may indeed achieve the kind of world-system we want. It is around this realization that we must organize our collectie efforts, though the road is hard and the outcome uncertain, the struggle is worth it."

This is almost poetry!