Making a new start in world history

Today, hardly anyone would say that in the last 30 years, since the 1990s, the world has clearly been in a state of degrading evolution, but it started earlier, in the 1970s, under the cover of the leap into the future that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. This degrading evolution can be seen as one side of the terminal phase of the systemic crisis of capitalism. And at the same time, this degradation is the social catastrophe of modern society.

The dismantling of capitalism is being carried out by the world leadership in such a way that in its place appears not something like the Soviet system, but something like a caste system.  It is, in fact, an anti-people, anti-national, anti-social revolution, the aim of which is to form a system far more brutal and less egalitarian than capitalism.

An equally anti-people revolution was the genesis of capitalism: the anti-feudal revolution, of which the British were the shock troops and the main beneficiary. They were the first to break into capitalism. They were also the shock troops of the current anti-capitalist revolution.

The British establishment has been equated with other countries and the reformatting of their ruling groups has followed the British-American model. To a certain section of the post-Soviet upper classes, Britain is cherished because of the attitude of its upper classes towards the lower classes, cruel and contemptuous as beings of a lower order who know their place, but this is hampered by the socialist legacy of the 20th century and the Russian legacy of the last few centuries. That is, our cultural codes, the archetypes, so hated by Chubais and other such entities.

It is no coincidence that Pushkin observed that the Englishman respects his barin, but the Russian does not. Because the government and the bar in 1762 (“Manifesto on the Freedom of the Nobility”) broke the social contract. By the way, even in 1991 the authorities broke the social contract. And, I repeat, the people will not forget or forgive this, even if there is no revolution, but there are other forms - elementary sabotage.

The bourgeois state has always expressed the interests of the powerful. However, in the mid-20th century, under pressure from the working class, the trade union movement and the existence of the USSR, it was forced to perform the functions of universal social security. And it is not surprising that in the 45-75s, during what the French call the “glorious 1930s”, corporate profits declined or grew slowly and the gap between rich and poor narrowed. However, starting in the 1980s, thanks in part to the policies of Thatcherism and Reaganomics, things began to change. Spending began to be supported by public debt. This is a very important point: spending began to be backed by the national debt, and thus shares began to accumulate in the hands of banks, bankers and the frenzied financial capital. By gaining autonomy from production, finance capital began to turn into financiarism.

The fact that profit was no longer created in the sphere of production or even in the sphere of services, but by the press, the stock exchange, public debt and derivatives, became a verdict on the middle class. Well, the destruction of the USSR put a decisive stamp on this verdict. It is on this verdict that the current 30-year-old British establishment was formed, which in this, but only in this, is the same age as the post-Soviet leadership. It is equally cynical towards the grassroots, and does not hide it. For example, millionaire Conservative MP Nathim Zahawi tweeted the following in April 2013. “We help those in need. But the days of outrageous and excessive demands, of providing more income than working families, are over”. This reminds me a lot of our officials' statements about “macaroni”, that it is possible to live on 3,500 roubles, etc.

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Translation by Costantino Ceoldo