As a Western Marxist theory of socialsciences the world-system theory has manysources, but Marxism is no doubt the mostimportant one. The world-system theory isa compromise, synthesization and continua-tion of Marxism. In respect of capital accu-mulation As a Western Marxist theory of socialsciences the world-system theory has manysources, but Marxism is no doubt the mostimportant one. The world-system theory isa compromise, synthesization and continua-tion of Marxism. In respect of capital accu-mulation