What are the tasks of strategic thinking, governance and action within the world social forum according to Immanuel Wallerstein?

Abstract

This paper reconstructs the answers of Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-2019) on the tasks of strategic thinking, governance and action within the World Social Forum needed in order to achieve ?another world?. The main method used to achieve as much as possible exhaustive reconstruction of Wallerstein?s answers to the title questions concerning the strategic thinking, governance and action among the World Social Forum?s members, is the qualitative content analysis of 500 Wallerstein?s commentaries, from Commentary No. 1, published on Oct. 1 1998, to Commentary No. 500, published on July 1 2019, some three months before his death. This paper?s main aim is to induce like - thinking people within World Social Forum to carry on to best of their ability strategic thinking, governance and action within the WSF keeping in mind Wallerstein?s ideas on these themes, over two decades after the first meeting of WSF in 2001 in Porto Alegre and less than one year before the next WSF meeting in Mexico.