The past can be told as it truly is, not was. For recounting the past is a social act of the present done by men of the present and affecting the social system of the present. (Immanuel Wallerstein)

The past can be told as it truly is, not was. For recounting the past is a social act of the present done by men of the present and affecting the social system of the present.

Immanuel Wallerstein

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