The Real Existing Real Reality 2022. Article Two. From the Self-Destructive Society to the Destruction of the Others or the Self-Destructive Three Societies World Goes to War
The present study ‘The Real Existing Real Reality 2022’ consists of two related articles. These are reflections on societies, and perhaps the world, on the way to self-destruction. The author wanted to add a subtitle to the article ‘The Three-quarter Time Waltz of Self-Destructive Society, the New Social Structure of Three Societies and a War, in Which Good Can at least Fight against Evil’. In this work we discuss the currently urgent issue of how to interpret the rapidly increasing peaceful and non-peaceful transformations in the definitive global world. We point out the common features of the current events. Our title (The Real Existing Real Reality 2022) goes back to Boris Ponomarjov's phrase about the ‘real existing socialism’, which should have been higher than all ‘utopian’ concepts. All references to ‘reality’ seem to have two different directions. In the first case, ‘reality’ is more valuable than utopias (as in Ponomarjov). In the second case, reality is poor and negative compared to ideas. But we are actually dealing with a third case. ‘Reality’ becomes for as the highest value, because the possession of the definition of Reality becomes the real goal of the present war. In the first article, ‘From the Victory of Neo-Liberalism to the Self-Destructive World Society’, we have shown the ‘real’ process and not yet reflected political and social transformations. In this second, article, ‘From the Self-Destructive Society to the Destruction of the Others or the Self-Destructive Three Societies World Goes to War’, we show that the replacement of the unipolar world by the multipolar world is not a metaphysical necessity, and that this replacement can take place in several ways. However, the ways in which it then takes place again depends on people who, especially under the circumstances of globalization, for objective and structural reasons, can ascend to become powerful actors. The connection between our theory of Globalization and the actual war between Russia and Ukraine lies in the actorial side of the real globalization. This actorial side has changed in a tragic way. It was the world-historical change between 2001 and 2003/2004, it is the imperial turn of the globalizaton of 1989. This war is the direct but by no means necessary or metaphysical consequence of the imperial turn. It is an imperial war that is definitely alien to the essence of globalization.
Authors
- Endre Kiss
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Globalization Studies
- Published
- 2024-11-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.30884/jogs/2024.02.09
- Primary Topic
- Economic Issues in Ukraine
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00