Immanuel Wallerstein is the director of the Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University , and a senior research scholar at Yale. He is the author of many books, including The End of the World as We Know it: Social Science for the 21st Century.
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Vol. 22 No. 10 · 18 May 2000
pages 11-14 | 5714 words
The Albatross of Racism
Immanuel Wallerstein writes about Europe’s oldest disgrace
More than a year ago I was invited to speak on ‘Social Science in an Age of Transition’ in Vienna. I was happy to accept. Vienna had a glorious role in the building of world social science, in the era of Traum und Wirklichkeit (1870-1930), especially. It was Freud’s home, until he was forced to flee to London, and also, for an important part of their lives, Schumpeter’s and Polanyi’s, in my view the two most important political economists of the 20th century. It was to this Vienna that I was going.
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Letters
Vol. 22 No. 12 · 22 June 2000
From Wilhelm Schmid
In discussing Bartolomé de Las Casas's stand against the enslavement of Indian peoples in Latin America, Immanuel Wallerstein (LRB, 18 May) might have mentioned that it was Las Casas who suggested recourse to African 'labour' instead.
Wilhelm Schmid
Sarajevo
From Editor, ‘London Review’
Immanuel Wallerstein's piece (LRB, 18 May) contained a number of errors in the German. In the first column on page 11, 'der andere Österreich' should have read 'dem anderen Österreich'. In the third column 'Der Mitte' should have been 'der Mitte'. And on page 12, 'Gastarbeitern' should have read 'Gastarbeiter'. On the first column of page 13, 'Wir sind Menschen, Christlichen Österreicher' should have read 'Wir sind Menschen, christliche Österreicher.' We are grateful to the readers who pointed out these mistakes and apologise for our failure to spot them.
Editor, ‘London Review’
Vol. 22 No. 14 · 20 July 2000
From Philip Russell
Wilhelm Schmid (Letters, 22 June) correctly observes that Bartolomé de Las Casas recommended African slavery as an alternative to enslaving Indian peoples. As he matured, however, Las Casas came to oppose both African and Indian slavery. During the 16th century, of course, the number of people who spoke out against enslaving Africans or Indians was minuscule.
Philip Russell
Austin, Texas
