The lost value of Soviet civilization

Globalization not only reproduces the Anglo-Saxon model of capitalism on a planetary scale, but also the international community imposes certain behavioral patterns, which is essentially designed to smooth, to level the existing unique differences in the habits, traditions, and motivations of individual nations and peoples of the planet. As part of a conscious (unconscious) satisfy the imperative of a total economic efficiency of various races and ethnicities all readily identify readiness to meet the need of a universal (unified) set of requirements, commonly displace proven through generations and are unique to these races and ethnicities values. As if under the influence of collective hypnosis, following this algorithm, the humanity 'voluntarily' leaning to the denial of the problem of the creative development of personality, becoming a submissive appendage of the market mechanism of self-regulation.

It must be stressed that the absurdity of the modern development of Anglo-Saxon model of capitalism due to the fact that the fetishization of the norms of the Protestant ethic is not only completely destroy the basis of the labor theory of value, but also to the base of her distorted moral imperatives. In the frantic quest for a permanent increase in the level of material well-being of mankind has not noticed how slowly but surely, plunged into the morality of the Middle Ages, assuming dominance in the animal instincts of self-preservation itself above the laws of humane coexistence. In the modern world 'nice to live' not only not forbidden, but encouraged by all available means. Fanatical worship of modern society to the golden calf led to the legalization of prostitution, pornography, drugs, abortion and gay marriage.

Humanity stands on the threshold of self-reproduction through cloning, because a consumer society are not known limitations. 'Gold Rush' has transformed almost everyone in rabotogolika, returning it to the 'jungle', where he himself sometimes without realizing it, no longer enjoys life, and burns in the struggle for survival. For the sake of maintaining a high level of domestic comfort of the world 'civilized' community is willing to turn a blind eye to flagrant violations of international law, violence and genocide committed by the passive complicity of international organizations in different parts of the world.

Characteristic that the inheritance of the principles of Anglo-Saxon legal model helped increase the number of democratic states from 41 in 1974 to 123-x in 2007. It would seem that such a transformation of the political system would lead to better protection of human rights. However, the ruling on the international arena was in contradiction with this logic.

So, according to Professor Graduate School of Business INSEAD (France) E. Kepshteyna today in the international slave trade and more people forcibly exported outside their countries than at any other time in history. The U.S. government estimates, the objects of the international slave trade are from 600 to 800 thousand people annually. In the structure of the international slave trade, women make up about 80%, of which 43%are used in order to satisfy sexual needs, in addition, about 50%of slaves - children under 18 years.

Soviet Union - interrupted a flight

Admittedly, prior to the irreversible processes of erosion of state, the USSR, speaking as an economically self-sufficient closed-ethnic space, reproduces, and cultivated in the main, only those values that are qualitatively different from the values promoted by the West. In the Soviet Union attempted to create world-view different from the Western worldview and way of life, which was portrayed as a superior, perfect and not subject to criticism or questioning of the ideal.

Self-confidence in his own ideological superiority is equally been characterized and the capitalist camp, which resulted in the failure of both systems to the formation of adequate approaches to the holistic perception of the world after the fall of the Iron Curtain, and led to a unilateral interpretation of reality, which is based on the value of winning the world capitalism. As aptly put by the French economist, M. Albert, with the collapse of communism in the world's political life was "a great emptiness' in the left center of the field that could be called the dialectic of ideas.

In academic circles, post-Soviet space often sound accusatory notes to the Marxist social doctrine often heard praises of money as the embodiment of the new morality and spirituality, symbol of the economic revolution that led to the formation of 'financial civilization' on a global scale. Along with tightening academic criticism of Marxism, the idea always looks to religion as to the indisputable conductor of scientific discovery, the source of human harmony and prosperity. However, often overlook the fact that, unlike the utopian projects T. Mora and R. Owen, the Soviet 'experiment' was a demonstration of the unconscious world of the ideal Christian society, the very vnematrichnoy reality of the spiritual well-being and happiness, the real form realization that nowhere above did not rise at such a high level of development, as in the USSR.

It is significant that the very ideology civilizing model of the West, not only did not reject the idea of building communism, but also believed that this process is quite natural phenomenon. Dzh.S.Mill, 'Reflections on representative government' (1861): 'When people stop to give preference to themselves before others, then communism is not only realistic, but the only acceptable form of social organization. Among the elite of mankind communism could be introduced even now '. F. Fukuyama, 'The End of History and the Last Man' (1992): 'Almost any professional in the field of politics believed in the eternity of communism and its fall worldwide in the late eighties was almost totally unexpected. " M. Albert, Capitalism against capitalism '(1991):' historic collapse of communism not only destroyed its Stalinist variant, unjustly killed everything that was closely or remotely connected with the ideal of social justice '.

Among the many factors of disintegration of the Soviet Union remains a neglected one of the main reasons, which is the inability and the inability of the Soviet people and, above all, the intelligentsia, in the limited access to the objects of comparison and lack of moral maturity on the dignity and comprehensively evaluate the entire set of lost base values that cultivated in the Soviet system. These values, above all, should include: a guaranteed one hundred percent employment of citizens, free medical, free education, free housing with a meager price to pay for utilities, financial stability, a high level of social welfare (free kindergartens, free school camps, free trips to rest homes and sanatoria), the construction of an ideology based on the elevation and exaltation of labor, as the supreme value, as the principal means of well-being and as a main indicator of the social significance of man.

Characteristically, the high quality free Soviet education received wide international recognition. This is evidenced by not only the number of Nobel Prize winners - immigrants from the Soviet Union, but also that the level of literacy among the adult population of the former Soviet republic still occupy the leading places in the index of human development the UN. Commercialization of education in post-Soviet space, along with the transition to the Bologna system, not only did not prevent the massive outflow of specialists abroad, but also substantially reduced the requirements for the teaching of basic subjects. The liberal approach in the preparation of curricula, the inclusion of these newfangled courses fit their contents under the 'news of the day', without taking into account the real needs of the economy, all contributed to the fragmentation of knowledge transferred, the loss of the systems in the educational process. There is nothing surprising in this, as the Bologna system focuses on highly specialized courses on the choice of the students themselves at the expense of the fundamental basic education.

Significantly, the most popular in the post-Soviet universities are now using economic discipline. For example, in Ukraine, one in five graduates with higher education - an economist. But can we talk with excitement about the knowledge taught under today's economic needs? After all, the theory of economies in transition, developed by Western schools of liberal persuasion, virtually ignores the historical specificity of the former socialist bloc, without alternative substantiates the benefits of economies of the West and is only aimed at one thing - to the ground to destroy all the achievements of the planned economy. Rationale for rational use in the post-classical theories of international trade (from Adam Smith to Paul Samuelson), in essence, aimed at maintaining relationships 'center-periphery', ie model, which over the past two centuries justified the central position of first Britain and later the United States in the global economy.

Soviet Union was built on the principles of collective well-being in which the funding of access to basic values is mainly due to the state, as opposed to Anglo-Saxon economic system, where the possibility of full use of basic values depend on individual financial status. As rightly noted political scientist and philosopher S.Kara-Murza: 'Those who have been brought up on Pushkin, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, it was impossible to take in the whole of civil society rationalism of the philosopher John Locke, under which the separation of people is justified because "no one can rich, without causing damages to another''.

In the Anglo-Saxon countries the government so zealously in favor of transparency and accountability to the public, to absolve themselves of any responsibility. Keep the public informed of all events - an essential condition for the maintenance of capitalism 'in form'. For this 'democratic' society through the media pumped daily information about the disaster, disease, murder, violence, war - that people are not relaxed, and 'was ready' at any time to meet face to face adversity. 'Be prepared' - means to actively support the infrastructure of capitalism - the banks, insurance companies, investment, pension and other funds in the process of production, exchange, distribution and consumption of money.


In sum, it should be emphasized that since the end of the Cold War unchecked promotion and dissemination of Anglo-Saxon model of capitalism has led to uncontrolled acceleration of the movement of production factors (ideas, people, services, goods and capital) and, as a consequence, an uneven asymmetrical accumulation of spiritual, intellectual, financial and physical assets on a global scale.

The response to a violation of global balance of power has become the world's current economic crisis revealed the weakest link in an imperfect system of values of the modern world. It is logical to assume that this crisis is only a harbinger of the subsequent series of monetary and financial, geopolitical, social and mental transformation, which, ultimately, will be designed to entail a radical change in operating current paradigm of modern civilization.