After the End of History: Progressive Alternatives to the Refeudalization  and Techno-Socialism

Occupation: Professor at Department of Political Economy of Faculty of Economics, Director of Center for Modern Marxist Studies at Faculty of Philosophy
Affiliation: Lomonosov Moscow State University
Address: Moscow, Russia

Journal name

Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya

Edition

Issue 11

Pages

164-172

Abstract

The article continues the author's publications in the journal “Sociological Studies”, in which it was shown that contradictions of the neoliberal model of late capitalism pose a threat of the society involution towards conservative liberalism and refeudalization. The new text demonstrates a possibile implementing jf a progressive alternative to this trend and criticizes currently popular idea of "technosocialism". The author argues that the developing relations of transit to the "kingdom of freedom" in the space of late capitalism presupposes (1) the active regulation of social reproduction in order to effect a transition from the orientation of socio-economic development to profit and GDP growth to eco-socio-humanitarian priorities; (2) reforming property relations in the direction of socialization; (3) redistributing part of the parasitically used excess incomes of simulacra people (rentiers, financiers, show business persons, professional sports stars, etc.) for the purposes of social development and (4) the progress from manipulated democracy to dialectical unity of civil society and essential democracy. The subject of these changes – a kind of "progressor" – can become a union of creative workers of the public sector (“socialists”) with highly professional industrial proletariat realizing their strategic interests politically and ideologically.

Keywords

"the end of history", late capitalism, neoliberalism, conservatism, refeudalization, "realm of freedom", post-capitalism, socialiat

Received

10.01.2024

Publication date

11.01.2024

Number of characters

24473

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GOST	Buzgalin A. After the “End of History”: Progressive Alternatives to the Refeudalization and “Techno-Socialism” // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya – 2023. – Issue 11 C. 164-172 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/socis/s013216250028547-4-1-en (circulation date: 05.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013216250028547-4
MLA	Buzgalin, Alexander "After the “End of History”: Progressive Alternatives to the Refeudalization and “Techno-Socialism”." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya 11 (2023):164-172. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250028547-4
APA	Buzgalin A. (2023). After the “End of History”: Progressive Alternatives to the Refeudalization and “Techno-Socialism”. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya (11), pp.164-172 DOI: 10.31857/S013216250028547-4

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