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Андрей Тихомиров
The future of humanity
What awaits humanity next? This question is of interest not only to futurologists, but also to the ordinary man in the street. If we briefly describe the entire known history of Homo sapiens, then we can state that this is an eternal struggle for existence, an eternal war with nature, animals, plants and with their own kind.
To think that there will be something or something else means to fall into illusions. The struggle with oneself is only gaining new turns. The territorial division of the world has been completed, the redistribution of the world between the oligarchs has begun, V. I. Lenin wrote about it at the begi
Imperialism relied on a higher level of development of productive forces and was characterized by a higher degree of concentration of production and capital, the development of capitalist relations in depth. In order to centrally provide their enterprises with energy, raw materials, transport, finance and labor, monopolies have increasingly resorted to the help of state bodies. As a result, a system of state-monopolistic regulation of the economy began to take shape, which acted in the interests of monopolies, ensuring increased exploitation of workers and infringing on the interests of the petty and middle bourgeoisie. First of all, the main contradiction of capitalism has deepened – between the social nature of production and the private capitalist form of appropriation. This was expressed, on the one hand, in an increase in the production of various goods. Their creation required the coordinated work of millions of workers. This reinforced the social nature of production. On the other hand, as a result of the concentration of capital in the hands of a narrow circle of people, they appropriated most of the goods produced. Private capitalist appropriation took on increasingly ugly forms.
As a result of the deepening of the basic contradiction of capitalism, periodic economic crises of overproduction have become more frequent, prolonged and destructive. In pursuit of profits, the monopolies expanded production even more rapidly and robbed the masses even more mercilessly, who lost the opportunity to buy the goods they produced. In pursuit of profit, the financial oligarchy has accelerated the transfer of huge amounts of capital to the most profitable industries. As a result, with the entry of capitalism into the highest stage, the uneve
Imperialism, as V. I. Lenin pointed out, leads "to a
Imperialism has led to the strengthening of militarism. This was due to the desire of the financial oligarchy: a) to keep the peoples of the colonies and dependent countries in subjection, b) to expand their possessions and spheres of influence at the expense of other powers, c) to suppress the resistance of workers within their country, and finally, d) to increase their profits through military orders.
Huge funds, the source of which was an increase in taxes from the population, were spent on military purposes. The role of reactionary militarism in politics and ideology has intensified. The cult of power, chauvinism and racism were actively promoted. Armed force was increasingly used to "solve" internal and external problems. Imperialism was characterized by "a special acuteness of the struggle for the redistribution of the world, a special acuteness of clashes leading to wars," wrote V. I. Lenin. Imperialism has given rise to a new type of wars – wars for the redistribution of colonies and spheres of influence, imperialist wars. Having unleashed world wars, imperialism became the culprit of the colossal destruction of productive forces, the death of millions of people. Imperialist states led by their oligarchs divide the world. All this is very similar to the endless wars between gangster clans. Which goes back to the level of the animal world. In the early 30s of the 20th century, the efforts of the Austrian zoologist K. Lorenz (1903-1989) and other scientists laid the foundations of the science of animal behavior, which was called ethology (from the Greek "ethos" – temper, character; the same root in the word "ethics" is the science of human behavior). Nutrition, growth, reproduction and self-preservation correspond to four kinds of instincts: hunger, sexual, aggression and fear. Aggression, according to Lorentz, is a genuine primary instinct aimed at preserving the species. It manifests itself primarily in competition within the species. The fittest individuals can take over a larger territory, bring more offspring and pass on their genes to the next generation. The meaning of intraspecific struggle, firstly, is that "for the species… it is always advantageous for the habitat or the female to be won by the strongest of the two rivals." the "struggle for the female" (mating fights) led to the prohibition of incest (incest) in related communities, a male created a harem of females, other males could not mate with females. When the main male weakened or died, the struggle for power and females began – the scenario was repeated. In many ancient states, for a long time, the custom of physical testing of rulers was preserved – in wrestling, ru