The Modern Normal Contextual Theoretical Basis of Political Analysis of Societal Cycles and Crises in Matrix-Capitalism Cover Image

Moderna normala - Kontekstualne teorijske osnove političke analize socijetalnih ciklusa i kriza u Matrix-kapitalizmu
The Modern Normal Contextual Theoretical Basis of Political Analysis of Societal Cycles and Crises in Matrix-Capitalism

Author(s): Dag Strpić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: contextual political analysis; political-economic crisis; societal cycles; equilibrium/disequilibrium; Modernism; modern normal; Matrix-capitalism; public policy; growth/development/transformation; sequencies of counterpoints of development

Summary/Abstract: The actual recession/depression is a radicalized continuation of a cyclical forty years long transformational slowdown of growth through basically stagnant fluctuations. With this slowdown is connected a serial of controversial, crisis-generating and finally unsuccessful general politics- and policy-change unprecedented in the contemporary world. An analysis of the societal history through sequencies of developmental counterpoints and through the logic of great societal, political-economic and political cycles demonstrates that causes of cyclical economic and societal movements in general, and of actual stagnation and crysis especially, are mostly noneconomical. They are mainly political. In short, their political foundation is in a radical actual and previous change in the equilibrium of a dynamic tendency of the modern political space. This equilibrium is here called “modern normal”. The modern normal (MN) is for us a tendentional space/structure of equilibria in the middle of (1) the political, (2) the personal/individual, (3) the whole world space, and (4) the space of the state/society. The actual kind of that disequilibrium or denormalization of modern normal indicates a process which is usually called totalitarian. In our actual case, the focal point is moved toward financial corporations as pseudo-statal regulators of economy, politics and society. Here, this is the Matrix-capitalism as a feedback of an urban legend and an analytical pattern. Generally, in the long run it is also a process of denormalized or bad and unsuccessful public- and business-policy, especially as development-, growth- and transformation-policy. This Matrix-capitalism, which is dominated by global financial corporations, is developing itself in a cyclically denormalised tendentional space/structure between: (1) the unpolitically “economical”, (2) the unindividually “personal”, (3) the unwholly “global”, and (4) the unstately, unsocially, and anti-economically “denational”. The Matrix-capitalism is functional only in a virtual world of ideologized economics and casino-business operations with derivatives etc. Cyclically interfaced with economic, social, cultural, political, personal, and national/world’s reality, Matrix-capitalism will every time be more unsustainable even for its mega-corporative core.

  • Issue Year: XLVI/2009
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 7-38
  • Page Count: 32
  • Language: Croatian