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Citizens All? Citizens Some! The Making of the Citizen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2003

Immanuel Wallerstein
Immanuel Wallerstein
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Yale University
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Inequality is a fundamental reality of the modern world-system as it has been of every known historical system. What is different, what is particular to historical capitalism, is that equality has been proclaimed as its objective, and indeed as its achievement—equality in the marketplace, equality before the law, the fundamental social equality of all individuals endowed with equal rights. The great political question of the modern world, the great cultural question, has been how to reconcile the theoretical embrace of equality with the continuing and increasingly acute polarization of real-life opportunities and satisfactions that has been its outcome.

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 45 , Issue 4 , October 2003 , pp. 650 - 679
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© 2003 Society for Comparative Study of Society and History

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Footnotes

E. P. Thompson Memorial Lecture, University of Pittsburgh, 18 April 2002. This article was written while I was at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (NIAS) at Wassenaar as Guest of the Rector in 2002. I wish to record my gratitude to the Rector and staff of NIAS for the wonderful and productive atmosphere, intellectual and social, which they provide to make possible the work of the Fellows.

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