THE STRUCTURAL CHARACTER OF THE CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL CRISIS AND THE NEED FOR A NEW ALTERNATIVE IN THE WORLD

Abstract

The autor examines the phenomenon of neoliberal capitalism, which manifests itself in the neocolonial expansion of mega capital, that is, transnational corporations as „planetary gradiators”, and the monocentric globalism as a specific military-political phenomenon, that is, the order of new inequalities and the antagonistic power in modern age. From this new system of the distribution of social power and the structure of geostrategic forces, the autor concludes that the phenomenon of totalitarianism does not proceed only from the character of the political system (i.e. the mono-party dictatorship of the state Leviathan) but from the economic model also. Unlike classical totalitarianism, which used to be based on the authoritarian power of the state, the new totalitarianism is based on the monopolistic and uncontrollable power of the transnational corporations. Namely, the author believes that modern age is dominated by neoliberal postmodern totalitarianism, the protagonists of which value profit more than people (the man) and make way for the socialdarwinization of the relations on the global market and social conflicts. Class and regional clashes (labor/capital, North/South) result from this. The author concludes that the consequences of the neoliberal – market-oriented fundamentalism – evident in the corporative „disaster capitalism” and „transition without social responsibility” – destroy modern world society, leaving it divided and and conflicted. The author focuses his analysis on pirate and „rogue economics” and the predatory role of usurer financial bourgeoisie as the creators of false progress, who, with their specific interests and greed, destroy real economy together with modern politocracy and cause world crisis.

The final conclusion of the author is the following: if humankind wants a way out of the current crisis, and the establishment of a truly open society and multipolar development, radical changes in the development strategies of the modern world are needed. If this does not happen, the modern world will face even more cruel regional and global contradictions and incontrollable conflicts. It is the task of social sciences, sociology in particular, to expose the real sources of social divisions and conflicts and to rationally define the directions that social actors should take towards new social-democratic alternative, to make the world richer, freer, more just and equal, and to make people happier and more peaceful.