ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the interrelationships of world-systems and argues that (1) business cycles and political trends are dialectically related, and (2) both share the same relationship with the cultural environment – the political economy, in other words, shapes, and is shaped by, the cultural environment it is embedded in. We apply this interrelation (trialectic) of world-systems to the post-revolutionary era and provide several case studies at both macro- and micro-levels to highlight, not only the causal links between the economic, political, and cultural spheres, but also how the change in cultural conditions marks both the beginning, as well as the end, of systemic cycles.
