Andrej Fursov: A re-dealing of cards is taking place in the world game
It is necessary to clearly realize that capitalism exhausted its economic dynamics at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and military-political dynamics began to operate. At the same time, the second industrial revolution, which took place from 1870 to 1910, ended at the beginning of the 20th century. From a Marxist point of view, it increased the surplus product and it was possible to improve the situation of workers without a significant increase in exploitation. In other words, the second industrial revolution dramatically increased the rate of growth of labor productivity.
If the first increased by 2%, the second by 2.2%, but the third by 1.38%. But the Third Industrial Revolution, that is, the end of the sustainable century, is only three things: a computer plus a mobile phone, the Internet and robots. Although the very inventions that formed the basis of these innovations were created even before the 60s and 70s, in the 40s and 50s. Therefore, I want to emphasize that the late phase of capitalism, that is, the 20s of the 20th century and later, is fundamentally different from the first two in that capitalism has already exhausted its economic dynamism by this period. From 45 to 65 or even 75, it was greatly helped that economies were recovering, but at the turn of the 60s and 70s they recovered and then the same problems that led to two world wars appeared. But now a world war was impossible, because it was not a question of states in the world facing each other, but of two social systems, of two global projects. And the owners of these global projects had nuclear weapons. And this situation completely changed everything.
The dominant groups of the capitalist system are faced with a very difficult choice. They need war to get out of a difficult situation, and war is impossible. In addition, there is the Soviet Union, which, despite the fact that in the 60s and 70s it began to integrate into the capitalist system, still existed as a fundamentally different project. And it was here that the world ruling class or the top of the capitalist class began to frantically search for a way out of the situation. Well, the simplest… and perhaps the only one in the situation they found themselves in, was the slowdown of scientific, technological and economic development. And so, during this period, two decades were very, very interesting. One decade can be called the long 70s, these are the years 1967 – 1982, and the second decade is the long 60s, these are the years 1958 – 1973. We see here that the period 1967 – 1973 is an “overlapping” period, it is the end of the long 60s and the beginning of the long 70s. It was in this period – from 67 to 73 – that the mechanism was triggered. And it was triggered simultaneously, for different reasons, by both the Western and Soviet leaders. It was in this period that the cards were dealt for everything else. The changes that took place during these 6 years defined the entire era that ended in 2020-2022.
Now we are entering a new era, and it is likely that the entire 20 years of the 21st century will be as decisive as the 6 years from 1967 to 1973. The French historian Braudel once said:
“In history, cards are often not dealt, but they are always drawn. However, I would add: “Those who have the trump cards in their hands win.” That is 67 – 73 – these are the cards that were dealt in history. And, by all accounts, the same deal is about to take place now. It must be said that the Soviet leadership in 1967-73 missed this deal. Not only did they fail to seize the trump cards. But they gave up the trump cards that they had… They exchanged, roughly speaking, gold for glass beads that the West gave them.
The most striking thing is that on At the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, the West was in a bad situation, which was reflected in the fact that in 1968 the Club of Rome was created, which is worth talking about separately. In 1973, the Trilateral Commission was founded. Why trilateral? The United States, Western Europe, Japan. Western Europe and Japan as two crutches that were supposed to support the United States and give it a chance to jump out of the historical trap it had fallen into. But the United States itself made great efforts, namely its ruling class, a certain part of the ruling class, which carried out such a “creeping” coup, starting with the assassination of John Kennedy and ending with the impeachment of Nixon. As a result, a very deep power was created, which began to have an increasing influence on the development of the United States. And most importantly, by the mid-1970s, the top positions in the world’s top capitalist class were occupied by corporatocracy and financiers, industrial capital was relegated to the background.
In the mid-1970s, the USA itself changed from a predominantly state to a predominantly transnational grouping. And this grouping launched an attack on the Soviet Union. And this turned out to be the second or new phase of the Cold War. The Gorbachev leadership did not capitulate to the old USA – the Soviet Union won the Cold War against the old USA – but the USA changed to a different structure. And it was this structure that defeated the Soviet Union in the sense that it forced the Gorbachev leadership to capitulate. Unfortunately, there are very few serious studies that would show the tragedy, the drama and the fate of this period. And here we need not only a theoretical approach. Here we need a stereoscopic macro-historical approach – to look very carefully at some of the crucial years of this period, at the years 67-73. Especially at 1968. To look carefully at what was happening, to look at the facts. So that this time, when we re-draw the historical cards, we do not hand over our trump cards to anyone.
The first event is the so-called student revolution. Of course, it was not a student revolution, the security services used the students. And it is not a revolution, it is a rebellion. But these people, who were raised by the so-called student revolution – students in the service of corporations – set the social and intellectual tone in the West for decades. And the degradation of politics and science in the West, which is happening now, is largely the result of the events of 68. Moreover, in the long run, the education reform, which the students pushed out of power during the student unrest in France, began the degradation of higher education in Europe in general. Among other things, under the guise of the false democratization of education, the psychological boundary between teacher and student began to blur. There was a desacralization of Western education in the worst sense of the word and a decline in its prestige. The “troika” ceased to be a figure of the third plan. On the contrary, he proudly came to the fore. And in principle, in all countries that the student revolution encompassed, the result was the degradation of education and society as a whole. And today’s Western professors, as well as the political elite, are to a large extent victims of the socio-cultural abortion of 68. The year 1968 was very important not only from the point of view of the history of individual states, individual countries, but also from the point of view of the development of transnational and supranational structures of world coordination and management.
The second event that deserves special attention was the founding of the Club of Rome. Capitalism is generally closely connected, purely politico-economically, with transnational structures. They express the integral and long-term interests of the ruling class of the capitalist system. And in the implementation of these integral and long-term interests, they often come into conflict with specific factions of the ruling class of the capitalist system, with specific states, and each new stage of the development of the capitalist system gave rise to fundamentally new closed structures. Initially, these were Masonic structures. By the end of the 19th century, they had worked out, their upward development had ended. Then structures such as the Geheimes Deutschland in Germany, the Rhodes Milner Society, arose. Then, at a new stage, the Cercle and the Sekel appeared. The post-war period demanded new structures, both closed and semi-closed – those that had a facade, but most of their work was carried out in a closed mode. Specifically, in 68, a regular meeting of the Bilderberg Club was held in Canada, in Mont Tremblant, at which it was decided to establish a society to create corporate cartels that were to replace nation-states.
But of course, the most important event in the life of transnational, supranational structures of globalism before globalization was the creation of the Club of Rome, which not only played an important role in the destruction of the USSR, but also sowed many seeds that have been germinating before our eyes for so long. This project is already dead, the report to the Club of Rome with the cheerful title “Come on!” can be considered more of an epitaph, but nevertheless, a number of ideas of this project – zero growth, population reduction, green agenda – are today taken up and developed by ultra-globalists. Both of these events of 1968 deserve separate consideration. The first of them formalized the socio-cultural restructuring in the consciousness of the masses, in the consciousness of people in the West and, subsequently, in all regions influenced by the West, and the second event meant the restructuring of the entire system of management of world processes on globalist rails. As a result, the world that we consume today began to be actively formed.
Erik Simon
