The article comments on the utopistic project of Immanuel Wallerstein, the best-known world-systems description of the modern civilization's future developed at the end of the last century. Based on the material of Wallerstein's "Utopistics" and some of his other works, we show the strengths and weaknesses of the long-term forecast of the transformation of the capitalist world-system. The article's elements of novelty include the reference to conceptual inconsistency of the doctrine of the world-systems analysis (WSA) that is realistic and evolutionary in its philosophical foundations, but comes into conflict with the new world trends. Following our analysis, we evaluate the concepts of the WSA and determine the practical importance of modern criticism of utopistics for theoretical and applied sociology.
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