Immanuel Wallerstein

``The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation as either inevitable or just constitute the continuing antinomy of the modern era, joined together in a dialectic which has far from reached its climax in the twentieth century."

Immanuel Wallerstein understands the world in terms of profiteers and oppressed. The quote above taken from Wikipedia, illustrates this view. At this very moment there is a movement in Mexico, the oppresed are saying no to the oppressor.

James Lovelock thinks in terms of the Earth as a system he calls Gaia, Wallerstein thinks of human societies and the world economy as systems also.

In this view of systems, I see Mexico as a system with feedback mechanisms that direct its evolution; it seems to me that Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has the pulse of the Nation, and is leading a whole country in new directions, expressing the will of the oppressed.

President Vicente Fox planned a state of siege situation to stop the voice of the people, AMLO did not played that violent game and asked the representatives of his party inside the legislative chamber to stop the President from giving his State of the Nation speech. AMLO won this battle, the system is moving.