Helping each other, competing in helping each other (who will help others better and more) is the essence and foundation of civilization. Without her, society would not have arisen at all: why would ancient hunters and gatherers come together if they only thought about how to beat each other ?! Bringing mutual benefit is at the core of collective life. Making each other's lives better is the main motive of culture and the sacrifices that art demands.
Capitalist competition is a diametrically opposite phenomenon. Its main and officially proclaimed task is to do each other badly. In the context of competition, people compete to cause harm and damage to each other. The more successful a person harms other people, the more competitive he is …
Certainly, the scheme of civilization and the scheme of competition had to enter into the most severe contradiction. And they went in.
Humanity will disappear either completely, biologically, or - as humanity, creating by means of psychic mutations a special type of non-human surviving in this acidic environment.
Capitalism is extremely aggressive. As soon as he broke free from feudal relations, he engaged in colonial robbery, the slave trade, drug trafficking (the opium wars of England), etc. The triumph of the traders of the bourgeoisie in France ended in the bloody sodomy of the Napoleonic wars, the First World War.
Then the feudal monarchs of Europe somehow crushed capitalism under their round butts, and for about 100 years they kept the zest with varying degrees of efficiency. He was beaten on the head with both the noble arapnik and the church censer.
But they did not finish it off: he again wriggled out from under the stone asses of the Vienna Congress, and staged a monstrous imperialist massacre of 1914-18. After it, part of humanity realized that it was impossible and there was nowhere to go - and began to build socialist republics - without the omnipotence of traders and market competition.
But capitalism that remained at liberty was not enough, and it staged a second world massacre, on such a scale that 50 years after it, humanity was in a state of concussion. And then again (as he came out of the coma after the Nazi bombings): Iraq, Afghanistan, again Iraq, Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, wars in the territory of the former USSR …
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What other proof do you need that capitalism is extremely aggressive, that it managed to arrange four world wars in a short historical moment of its domination (Napoleonic wars, world wars 1 and 2 and the dismemberment of the USSR)? And, most importantly, he does not think of stopping at what has been achieved, and he cannot stop there.
After all, nothing else but how to crush neighbors with a huge variety of methods is not taught by his system. Under capitalism, a person trains to harm, like an athlete trains in running, swimming, shooting. And, as athletes end up having champions, so capitalists have champions of wrecking. They drown entire continents - and for this (precisely for this!) They receive honor, respect at home, become role models and objects of envy.
But it is precisely for this reason that capitalism puts itself in the position of an enemy to all culture, all knowledge and cognition, all rationality, bookishness, and in general everything that makes up civilization. Capitalism is sensual, not reasonable, and it is built on the excitement, adrenaline of a person's worst feelings.
The sensuality of a sadist, which is akin to orgasm, discards the questions of the mind like "why should I alone have so much food, shoes, rooms and hectares?" Capitalism silences the mind - in the name of the senses and instincts of the alpha male.
It does not continue the continuity from primitive forms of moralizing theism (feudal religiosity) to more developed forms of morality associated with the progressive development and improvement of moral and spiritual principles. Capitalism (therefore it is a pathology and a threat, not a stage) - interrupts this tradition of the ascent of the scribes to the unhypocritical triumph of the spirit and commandments.
Humanity throughout its history has tried to build the kingdom of Truth out of the kingdom of arbitrariness and chaotic violence. They tried to replace rude arrogance with moral behavior, and not from under a stick, not under the threat of punishment, but consciously and voluntarily moral.
How and why K. Marx in this antihuman recoil saw the "stage of development", moreover, obligatory for all peoples - God knows! Why Marx's essentially ridiculous view was accepted by so many people, who instinctively hate capitalism for its cult of harm to one's neighbor, is also a mystery and a grimace of history …
But it's time for us to start understanding something …
Author: Nikolay VYKHIN