How can capitalism outlive itself? And how, on the contrary, can he not get rid of himself, but, on the contrary, slip into his worst, most savage (early) forms? The process of internal elimination of itself by capitalism is a PROGRESSIVE ANTHROPOLOGY.
This is when a person becomes smarter, more educated, thinks wider and deeper, knows more and knows how.
Such a person (thinker) does not worship the evil elements of life, but argues with them, overcomes them, having understood their nature and structure.
A stupid person, dreaming of rain in a drought, makes bloody sacrifices to atmospheric elements, and a smart one builds an irrigation installation. He does not beg for rain - because he himself becomes the lord of the rain.
And all the problems of oppressive societies (not excluding, of course, capitalism) are associated with the insurmountability of troubles for a person.
This contradiction between mind and morality is the main motivator for the processes of oppression of man by man.
If you want to live comfortably, do something bad to another, or you yourself will live badly. If you don't find someone to blame your troubles on, then you yourself will stay with them!
In fact, capitalism (like earlier forms of oppressive societies) is a sacrifice, a completely natural understanding for a person of pre-Christian eras that personal success must be paid for with someone else's death. The strong, having seized power, sacrifice the lives and destinies of all who turned out to be weaker, formalizing it with money (capitalism), or not formalizing it (earlier forms of oppression).
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As you can imagine, paper banknotes by themselves have no value [2], their value is only in the power that stands behind them and which released them into circulation in the territory under its control.
Hence the rule: if there is very little food, then it is clear that only the strongest will receive it. And only as a result of a very brutal fight.
But if you make a lot of food, then the bitterness in the fight for food will disappear. There is no need for a person to fight another person - if they both have enough.
The same goes for other material goods. The more there are, the less violently the pretenders fight for them. The ideal is air, the most necessary of material goods, and moreover free!
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Thus, there are two ways for a person: to break another person or to break a problem that made another person break. The second solution is directly and inextricably linked with the development of science and technology, with the mental and moral development of human society.
In order to break a problem that is invincible at the animal-zoological level, you need to stop being an animal.
Thus, overcoming capitalism and, in general, the oppressive system - in the mental and spiritual development of a person. As for the development of the productive forces, their progress reflects only for the second time (and at the same time is far from always proportional) the mental and spiritual development of a person.
To create a smart machine that overcomes the suffering of a laborer, or overcomes the lack of this or that good in circulation, you need:
A stupid person will not come out of capitalism, just as a cruel, evil person with a deep mind - but aimed at destruction and suppression, will not come out of it.
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Hence the clue to the restoration of capitalism - or rather, the most archaic and barbaric forms of it: mental and moral degradation returns exactly to the place from which mental and spiritual development was taken.
Plunging into zoological relations more and more gross forms of oppression of man by man.
This is exactly what happened in our country during the "perestroika" and "reforms".
Man lost the human in himself - and the world of people around him began to transform into the animal world, into the wild. Where it was safe yesterday has become dangerous. Where it was full, it became hungry. Where there were no cannibals yesterday - today they appeared.
These are the "reforms" of the 90s: the overgrowth of the anthropogenic landscape with flora and fauna of primitiveness.
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The less a person owns the elements, the more sacrifices he brings to them. And objectively - because it doesn't work otherwise. And subjectively - when some are trying to take away from others as many benefits as possible.
Where there are no excavators, people are tortured with shovels, where there are no dump trucks, people are forced to carry stretchers and pull themselves apart with wheelbarrows.
Where there is little food - there it is the lot of the winners. Where there is a lot, it can be distributed according to principles close to communism: eat, do not mind, they still did not know what to do with it.
Primitive production is not only inefficient, it is monstrously cruel. Technically developing, production gives more and more, but demands from a person - less and less.
Miracles of progress are happening: a person who worked for an hour, without particularly straining, produced more product than a person who worked hard for 14 hours! How is this possible? Only thanks to the development of technology.
But if the production cruelty in the base decreases, the human cruelty in the superstructure will also decrease. The position of the oppressor is no longer so valuable in the eyes of the masses, and the position of the worker is no longer so terrible, not so unenviable.
The fight for leadership positions is not so scary anymore. Sometimes it even starts to behave according to the rules - and not like the gopota in the gateway.
If you make the worker's fate not terrible, then the class struggle will not be terrible either. After all, one follows from the other: the worse a person is in the basement, the harder he tries to get out of there.
Consequently, capitalism can outlive itself, mentally and spiritually developing a person.
And all this is classical Marxism, in which the progress of production relations follows the development of the productive forces.
There is no automatism in the spiritual and intellectual development of a person. A baby is not born with an instinctive thirst to quickly sit down at a desk and get more knowledge! Human development is not an instinct like breathing or heartbeat.
A person from generation to generation can develop - by accumulating knowledge, and can degrade, losing it. What to do in the second case - Marxism does not answer. He did not consider such a situation.
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Marxism says: the productive forces must mature. But what can ripen can both overripe and rot. Ripening fruits not only develop into ripe fruit, but also decompose.
In our opinion, everything is determined by the cultural and educational environment that forms the inner world of a person. A well-formed person - well organizes the productive forces around him, wisely choosing the tools. They do not just develop like that, the productive forces! They are also developed by specific minds, inventors, innovators, engineers, designers, etc.
And if a person is poorly formed by the cultural and educational environment? How are we in the 80s?
If we gave a blunder in the cultural and educational sphere, let a person out of reasonable forms of spiritual education, then the collapse of the productive forces is only a matter of time.
And today the problem is that the available productive forces are not used. Enterprises work at half-strength, produce much less products than they could in their usual mode … So what is the problem - in the productive forces or in the spiritual degradation of society?
He has in his head various chimeras, hallucinations and contradictory nonsense, a cross between Solzhenitsyn and leftists. He has no instinct for lies, for bullshit and bullshit, with which he is fed. And he has productive forces, they stand idle, he just does not use them …
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I supplement Marxism with the following discovery: if the internal motivations of human activity have become bestial, then the entire external environment of a person will begin to degrade to primitive.
If you want only what the animal wants, then you will only live in what the animals live in.
I do not know (this is a controversial issue) how consciously the golem [3] of capitalism in the framework of self-preservation applied "destructive anthropology" Partly, perhaps, the golem was aware of what it was doing (Dulles' plan), partly grabbed the degenerates instinctively, like a drowning man by a log, partly it was just circumstances, a combination of accidents.
Progress is something that cannot be grabbed overnight or inherited - like property or a crown. A person can live by someone else's labor, parasitizing on it, but he cannot mentally develop himself by reading someone else's.
The golem of capitalism (its collective self-awareness), if not with the mind, then with the heart feels that in progress, his death. And saving himself, he launched the technology of mass degradation of "human material"
Someone was the first to say, while others picked up: our salvation is in human stupidity! Forming smart ones - we form our own, if not gravediggers, then substitutes, displacers!
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In a society of people, in order to lead, you need to be smarter than everyone. Otherwise - if the subordinates are smarter than you - there is a leadership crisis.
But how to achieve dominance in this area?
Should you learn the most?
Or lower others to the bottom of the primitive so that for them a person with three grades of real education would seem an academician?
The second way is easier.
If a society consists of morons, then it is easy to lead them, and you will not have to especially strain on your own intellectual quality.
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In the world of mental degradation, complex forms of thinking, for all their rationality and usefulness, which is easy to prove to those who are able to perceive rational arguments, are unclaimed.
A mentally and mentally immature person cannot lead a mature lifestyle, a stupid person cannot intelligently manage.
This causes intellectuals to resent people who “did not support,” and so on.
But!
These intellectuals do not understand an important thing: it is stupid to impose on people what they do not need, they are not in demand - and then be offended that people are not eager to help you.
Either people need it; or it's too early.
Or maybe it's too late.
For the fruit is unripe, ripe, and rotten.
The moment the fruit ripens does not last forever. And besides the processes of creation, there are also processes of decay. Life is not an "ascent in one direction" - it can go up, fall down, or go somewhere to the side, to dead ends.
And what are “top” and “bottom”? They are determined by what a person considers an ideal, an ideal state (compare the aspirations of a cultured worker, who is striving for knowledge, and his fellow alcoholic, drug addict).
That is, the ideal that gives direction to aspirations is also dependent on the spiritual development of a person.
If a person is stupid, then his dreams and aspirations are stupid. And if he is turned into an animal, then all his aspirations are animals, beasts.
An animal is generally incapable of developing, its life cycle is closed in a circle of renewable generations. Generations change, but nothing else changes …
Of course, they can lie down out of annoyance - but nothing more.
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Marxism said that capitalism will outlive itself through its own development, self-improvement.
I meant the development of the productive forces.
And we add a very important thing: but the development of the productive forces is a derivative of the development of man, from progressive anthropology, and not vice versa!
With the removal of cruelty, there is a convergence of the ways of life of the oppressor and the oppressed
In the beginning there is a gap between them - which, in fact, gave rise to the need for oppression in the eyes and psychology of the oppressor.
This is a terrible job in terrible conditions that someone has to do and you don't want to.
Once the work is no longer awful, and the conditions are no longer awful, the fear of them, which makes them be cruel, also diminishes.
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There is no automatism in the process. The described dynamics works only in the world of a spiritually ascending person, in the world of triumphant Reason. In a degenerative world (like the current 21st century), people cannot solve any problem for the first reason out of a thousand reasons that they are unable to pose it, formulate it. Where does the answer come from - if the question has not been raised ?!
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The main thing in progress is having a person who can formulate questions
The solution to the problem comes (albeit not immediately) - where the problem is recognized as a problem. And where she is not seen, where she is drowned in everyday life, to everyone who seems “completely natural” and “uncontested” - there, of course, they will not find a solution, being born and dying in a circle for as many generations as desired.
This is the main lesson of millennia of ancient, pre-Christian history of mankind, in our time well studied.
Where in evil and cruelty, filth and filth, cannibalism they do not see anything unnatural or ugly, there they are not overcome in any way, no matter how much time history has allowed people.
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Create a person who knows how to pose questions, ask the questions "why is this so?" - and you will solve (over time) everything and any problem! This is the core and focus of life, this is the spirit of history and civilization.
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[1] And further: “What is the social role of the domestic servant? Of course - to the release of the nerve-brain energy of the intellect from the need to keep the home clean: to destroy dust, litter, dirt in it. In its meaning, this is a very honorable cooperation of physical energy … It is necessary to create a kind of social catechism, a book that would simply and clearly tell about the need for various connections and roles in the process of culture, about the inevitability of sacrifices. Each person sacrifices something …"
[2] They can simply be canceled and withdrawn from circulation. In addition, they can be radically devalued, they can be confiscated - both by direct violence and by farce of the court, and taken away by court decision. Etc.
[3] In sociology, the term "golem" means a collective being made up of many people by combining their will and desires. A golem - as a social organization - is devoid of the individuality of those who compose it, it is guided only by the most general, common interests for all its constituent people. The golem develops its own program of actions, its own motives, it has an instinct for self-preservation and a number of other properties inherent in discrete organisms (flocks, herds, swarms, anthills).
[4] Although, from the point of view of the ancient slave owner, any craft, literature or mechanics, any work is shameful, unworthy of a free man. Any paid craft is a sign of lack of freedom and belonging to the lower strata of society.
[5] Law of an Oppressive Society: The worst jobs pay the worst. This is due to a rigid caste system, in which the least prestigious works are the lot of outcasts, pariahs of society. And people close to the ruling strata are engaged in more prestigious jobs, and therefore these people are more often met by raising wages.
Author: A. Leonidov