Capitalism will outlive itself thanks to progressive anthropology

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

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 the 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, and capitalism) are associated with the insurmountability of troubles for a person.

This insurmountability tempts and urges to pass the misfortune onto other people's shoulders. The everyday mind is not simply separated from morality, but becomes its opposite: when it is morally unwise to live, and to live wisely is immoral. “If you don’t cheat, you won’t sell,” the merchants said about this, which became a well-known popular saying.

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 it badly for 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!

Here is how Klim Samgin thinks about it in Maxim Gorky: “In a social structure there should be people deprived of the right of personal initiative, the right of independent action” [1]. Then he thought of the words of his father about the sacrifice (!) Of Abraham "and angrily lit a cigarette."

Actually, capitalism (like earlier forms of oppressive societies) - this is the sacrifice, it is quite natural for a person of pre-Christian eras to understand that one must pay for personal success with someone else's death. The strong, having seized power, sacrifice the lives and destinies of all who are weaker, formalizing it with money (capitalism), or not formalizing it (earlier forms of oppression).

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 issued 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. A person no longer needs to fight another person - if both of them have enough.

The same goes for other material goods. The more there are, the less violently the claimants fight for them. The ideal is air, the most necessary of material goods, and, moreover, free!

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Thus, before a person there are two ways: 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.

As long as a person is close to an animal, he will break other people, as all animals do with competitors in interspecific and intraspecific competition.

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 it is not 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:

- Mental abilities (their development)

- Moral motivation to make others better (because the technical mind can also be directed to solving the opposite problem: how to make others worse).

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, its most archaic and barbaric forms: mental and moral degradation returns exactly to the place from which mental and spiritual development was taken.

Plunging into zoological relations of 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.

Have you seen how the forest reclaims abandoned arable land from a person? This is a very similar process, the essence of which is the transformation of a man-made landscape back into a wild, natural environment. The man threw the field - and the forest threw the seeds of their trees into the field. Over the years, the seeds have become thin trees, and then they grow into the most ordinary forest trees. And the once cleared field turns back into the primeval forest.

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.

Capitalism can outlive itself, having outlived the cruelty of cannibalism that was originally embedded in it: substitute another person for trouble in its place. There is no trouble - and there is no need to substitute anyone

Primitive manufacturing is not only ineffective, but monstrously brutal. Technically developing, production gives more and more, and 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.

But now - in defiance of Marxism.

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 organizes well the productive forces around him, choosing his tools wisely. 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 a schoolboy of the 80s (I will say self-critically) grows up as a spiritual degenerate? What productive forces around him will he be able, and would he like to develop?

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.

Today's problems are not that there is no productive capacity. So the problem faced the vigorous people of the 20s - and they solved this problem by industrialization.

And today the problem is that the available productive forces are not used. Enterprises work 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?

Our man is spiritually and mentally unhealthy.

He has various chimeras, hallucinations and contradictory nonsense in his head, a cross between Solzhenitsyn and leftists. He has no instinct for lies, bullshit and bullshit that feed him. 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.

But the golem of capitalism does not want to die - and in the world of human development and scientific progress, it dies. The bestial unconditionality of the owner is replaced in the world of progress by competence, and it cannot be bought or inherited, it must be independently acquired in studies and training. In the early Middle Ages, most of the kings were illiterate and signed with crosses; in the late Middle Ages, no one in royal families could afford the luxury of not learning to read and write.

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.

If the other works for me, I become richer, not he.

From what the other reads, he becomes smarter, not me.

The golem of capitalism (its collective self-awareness), if not with the mind understands, then with the heart feels that its death is in progress. And saving himself, he launched technologies 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, to lead, you need to be smarter than everyone. Otherwise - if the subordinates are smarter than you - a leadership crisis arises.

But how to achieve dominance in this area?

Is it the most to learn by yourself?

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.

And capitalism before our eyes has turned into a factory for the production of morons.

He is saved by them.

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In the world of degradation of the psyche, complex forms of thinking, for all their rationality and usefulness, which is easy to prove to those who are able to perceive rational arguments, turn out to be 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 do not burn with enthusiasm 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 "up" and "down"? They are determined by what a person considers to be 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 animal, 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 …

Horses and donkeys can be considered "proletarians" - they, as muscle strength, are used not only in agriculture, but sometimes even in industry (to turn some wheels). And what - horses and donkeys will ripen for the revolution? Will they wait until their drivers cannot rule in the old way and do not want to live in the old way because of a sharp exacerbation of their torment?

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!

Then the dynamics indicated by us occurs:

Capitalism is outliving itself (which, in fact, was what the Marxists expected of it).

But differently than the Marxists imagined it to be.

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.

It's a terrible job in terrible conditions that someone has to do and you don't feel like it.

Once the work is no longer awful, and the conditions are no longer awful, the fear of being cruel also diminishes.

There are such types of work that counts and princes willingly try on: literary creativity, scientific research, fine types of needlework. They are so attractive in themselves that they do not scare anyone (another thing is that not everyone likes it). You cannot frighten a child with the words - "if you study badly, you will become a writer" [4]. It's okay to become a writer - no. In contrast to a number of other professions, which are frightening both with working conditions and meager wages [5].

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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 not able 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 knows how to formulate questions

The solution to the problem comes (albeit not immediately) - where the problem is recognized as a problem. And where they do not see her, where she is drowned in everyday life, to everyone who seems “completely natural” and “without alternative” - there, of course, they will not find a solution either, 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 long history has let people go.

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Create a person who knows how to ask questions, ask the questions "why is this so?" - and you will solve (over time) any and all problems! This is the core and focus of life, this is the spirit of history and civilization.

[1] And further: “What does the social role of the domestic servant boil down to? 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 a 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.