Andrey Fursov: Capitalism-The Terminal Crisis of the Most Enigmatic Social System

Andrey Fursov: Capitalism-The Terminal Crisis of the Most Enigmatic Social System
I am going to tell you things which are rather simple. But the problem is that simple things are sometimes more difficult to explain and understand than complicated ones.
The reason for that – not the only, but a very important one – is the fact that we are accustomed to live within the limits of a certain world picture. When one is inside of such a familiar picture, even in case it is complicated, it seems to be simple. People do like to live in comfort not only materially, but also intellectually – to live among familiar concepts, notions and images. The intrusion of some new picture can lead to a kind of discontent. Often as not such discontent is transformed psychologically into a resistance to new as something too complicated.
Today we shall speak about one such system – capitalism – which has found itself in a deep systemic, I would say, terminal crisis. I am going to touch several topics:
1) the unique features of capitalism as a social system;
2) the main contradictions of the capitalist system;
3) the dynamics and the logic of capitalist development;
4) the place of the USSR as of systemic anticapitalism in the capitalist system; the role of Soviet elites in the 1960–80s in the degradational social evolution which started at that time;
5) the plans of global elites to overcome the current crisis.


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