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== Exposition ==
== Exposition ==


The [[e:2007-2010 Financial crisis]] vividly shows the hallmarks of a late crisis of the existing world order. The essence of that order is that all social activity, governance, etc,, is driven by and has as its purpose private accumulation. Thus nothing which seriously challenges this order can get much attention, resources, etc., or if it does these efforts are generally ineffectual. Pollution driven climate change and health care being the classical but by no means sole examples. Problems which require a transnational and essentially social basis will continue to be poorly addressed because society is explicitly organized to do so.
The [[:en:Financial crisis of 2007-2010]] vividly shows the hallmarks of a late crisis of the existing world order. The essence of that order is that all social activity, governance, etc,, is driven by and has as its purpose private accumulation. Thus nothing which seriously challenges this order can get much attention, resources, etc., or if it does these efforts are generally ineffectual. Pollution driven climate change and health care being the classical but by no means sole examples. Problems which require a transnational and essentially social basis will continue to be poorly addressed because society is explicitly organized to do so.


In particular, the overall process (of late triumphalist capitalism) has certain aspects which can be expected to lead to more and more severe crises until there is some fundamental restructuring of society on a global basis. On the one hand Capitalism drives to ever greater levels of productivity and efficiency with the narrow confines of its (often mismanaged) production for the consumer culture upon which it has become dependent. If it were able to produce consumers whom it was able to pay the high wages needed for demand corresponding to ever increasing production it would be able to sustain itself indefinitely. This seemed to be possible after the last great conjuncture resolved in the last phase of the Second Thirty Years Wars because of social polices that lead to a massive increase in the production of just such consumers up to and including the induction of chinese workers in global production. However this process has reached its limits and the classic signs of converging crises and panics are evident as various forces are moving into their revolutionary correlation.
In particular, the overall process (of late triumphalist capitalism) has certain aspects which can be expected to lead to more and more severe crises until there is some fundamental restructuring of society on a global basis. On the one hand Capitalism drives to ever greater levels of productivity and efficiency with the narrow confines of its (often mismanaged) production for the consumer culture upon which it has become dependent. If it were able to produce consumers whom it was able to pay the high wages needed for demand corresponding to ever increasing production it would be able to sustain itself indefinitely. This seemed to be possible after the last great conjuncture resolved in the last phase of the Second Thirty Years Wars because of social polices that lead to a massive increase in the production of just such consumers up to and including the induction of chinese workers in global production. However this process has reached its limits and the classic signs of converging crises and panics are evident as various forces are moving into their revolutionary correlation.
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