Varn Vlog

C. Derick Varn

Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. Varn Vlog is the pod of C. Derick Varn. We combine the conversation on philosophy, political economy, art, history, culture, anthropology, and geopolitics from a left-wing and culturally informed perspective. We approach the world from a historical lens with an eye for hard truths and structural analysis.

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Episodes (382)

Yesterday From Mills To World-Systems: Tracing Wallerstein’s Path with Sam Chian
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Varn Vlog

Feb 23, 2026
2 hours
71 MB

What if the most consequential “Marxist” of a generation refused to call himself one—and was more consistent for it? We dive into Immanuel Wallerstein’s intellectual journey, from C. Wright Mills’s classrooms to African political movements and a close reading of Fanon, to the long durée horizons inspired by Fernand Braudel. Along the way, we unpack how world‑systems analysis took shape against modernization theory, challenged neat stages of growth, and rejected methodological nationalism without abandoning struggles for national liberation. We trace Wallerstein’s friendships and frictions with the thinkers often grouped as the world‑systems “...

Varn Vlog

From Mills To World-Systems: Tracing Wallerstein’s Path with Sam Chian

C. Derick Varn

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