In all scientific probability, taking a very long view of history, the current so-called 'world economic crisis' seems to be the final dissipating phase of capitalism as a dominant world mode of production and destruction on earth. In reality, the unilateral perverse relation between society and nature is taking its toll, production is giving way to human creativity and creation. Capitalism is the last exploitative mode of production on earth. This is the current contradiction: productive barbarism versus creative emancipation. This is the 'world economic crisis'. For obvious reasons, in the world news, in the mainstream mass media very little information can be found with regard to real modern capital and capitalism "dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt."
Who really still sees the 'blood and dirt' of Iraq, of Afghanistan, of Gaza, of Sri Lanka, of Zimbabwe, of Venezuela, of the USA, of Nepal, in direct relation to the so-called 'world economic crisis', to decaying world capitalism?
The appearance forms in isolation can be found everywhere in the world news, including their censorship and ideological maltreatment. As Kant would say, they have already developed themselves to full recognizability. It is very easy to know what is capitalism, all the data and information are there, are globalized.
What really can see totalities and processes are sane, healthy, human brains, but over the decades most of them have been bamboozled, manipulated and indoctrinated by all types of 'belief' or 'make-belief' systems, by superstitions, religions, malpractices and ideologies. Of course, very few of them will be able to grasp scientifically the bottom line of the coming Great Depression of the 2010s. Most of us still believe that great gods, great ideas, great men and great races make history. With such a foggy world outlook, which eclipses reason (Adorno and Horkheimer) and capitalist realities, as a species, we could barely survive the current cataclysmic onslaught of global imperialism.
Definitely the species man is an experiment, is part of experimentum mundi (Bloch); as such, it could succeed, fail or bring forth things 'not dreamt of in our philosophy" (Hamlet). However, as Anaximander of Miletus stated: who does not expect the unexpected will never find it. Within the 'world crisis', let us exemplify such complex intellectual endeavors.
In the raging world 'war of ideas', headed by the Murdoch empire, logically guarding its own corporate class interests, permanently many of our minds are being bombarded, fractured, atomized and alienated, are being doomed to a passive, receptive, pacifist, masochistic master-slave mentality, to perform schizophrenic acts and to nurture ossified thoughts and, as evasive mechanism, to indulge in excessive consumption and pathological consumerism.
Thus, concretely, who really relates the millions of surveillance cameras in Great Britain, and in Europe, ... which publicly at random daily are taking billions of photos of the innocent working population, ... with the atrocities and unmanned Israeli surveillance planes over Gaza. In the news, who connects this to Haliburton's war business, to Exxon Mobil's energy plans, to military coups in Venezuela, to Murdoch, to Microsoft, to micro-chips, to nanobots. At our universities, in Oxford, Harvard of the Sorbonne, who studies the world economic crisis within the context of a coming Big Brother, of global fascism? What is the relation of the collision of Russian and American satellites with HAARP, with scramjets, with Tesla technology and with 'flying saucers'?
To achieve the above, Mother Nature has endowed us with our most formidable weapons, brains: with reflection, thinking, thought, theory, philosophy and sapience. Are we caring them?
Precisely this German national socialism in the midst of a severe global economic depression tried to capture: 'if you want to control a people, control its education' (Hitler). This is nothing new at all; in the third part of his 'Republic', Plato already suggested the fabrication of this arm of mental mass destruction. Maquiavelli's Prince and Hobbes' Leviathan have similar things in mind. Orwell and Huxley predicted the current version of global body and mind control. Thousands of films, videos and writings are treating the dangerous problem of mind and thought control at the level of the 21st century. In many cses mind control is not necessary anymore, they are ajready saturated with ever present cultural, religious and ideological toxic doses.
For these very reasons, revolutionary theory and emancipatory praxis are quintessential for human survival. The cat falls onto its four paws, however, who has stopped to think, as Bloch said: "falls into eternal yesterday".
Unfortunately, capitalist 'education', 'socialization', 'culture' and religion have reduced many of our minds to passive receptors of myths, hoaxes, lies and ideology. If a minimum of intellectual capacity nevertheless still survives, what would we ask?
How are we going to overcome a 'crisis' if we do not know what capitalism is all about?
In fact, in some circles, the very concept 'capitalism' has disappeared and has been replaced with some weird modern terms.
In brief, what are the main causes of this "world economic crisis"?
Millennia of violently separating the producers from their products and from their means of production, by converting the former into slaves, serfs and wage-slaves, and the latter into private property of opulent, parasitic ruling classes, ... who have just one thing in mind: to accumulate capital, profits and power ... all this caused the root of the present 'world economic crisis': it also contains the explanation and solution to a man made disaster, which can be changed by man himself.
Over the centuries, the symptoms have changed, the phenomena are different, labor and capital transformed themselves, the masters and slaves are more depersonalized, occult and sophisticated, the class struggles take on other complex forms, ... nonetheless, the foxes only have changed their fir coats but not their ravenous appetite for capital and profits.
