Paul Goble
Staunton, Mar. 5 -- "The current global conflict does not lie along national borders," Anatoly Nesmiyan who logs under the screen name El Murid says. "In fact, it is a clash of two diametrically opposed projects of the future," between those who want to reduce the power of individual states and those who want to make some some states stronger and more imperialistic.
Both of these ideas are a response to problems with the existing global order, the blogger says; but neither "promises anything good for the world. Instead, they reflect "the emerging and uncontrollable complexity of the world" no one has been able to deal with (rosbalt.ru/news/2025-03-04/anatoliy-nesmiyan-mir-razdelitsya-nadvoe-5337799).
In important respects, he suggests, this debate is like the one that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1920s between the supporters of world revolution and the backers of socialism in one country; and it also resembles that one that took place in the USSR at its end when the rulers of that country "proved unable to manage the complex social object they had created."
Essentially, El Murid continues, this situation is true in ever more countries because "the highly developed world has lost control over people who remain in earlier and more archaic phases of development. The elites are divided over what to do but are in fact choosing among contrasting pasts rather than articulating and selling something new.
"Nation states are instruments in this struggle," he says; but they are not its source. And so it is a mistake "to miss the essential nature of this ongoing conflict," because the existing governments are having choose sides in what is a larger and more significant contradiction.
No comments:
Post a Comment