This is happening just at that moment when all over the world the talk is no longer about the creation of a new global economy, but about the crisis in it. That our writers on current affairs and theoreticians are speaking about globalization later than those in the West testifies not at all that it has missed us or been held back, but rather gives evidence to the backwardness of our social thought. Worst of all, when it speaks of globalization, our press immediately divides itself into two camps. Some see in globalization an irrepressible natural process in which it is necessary to be enrolled, others see it as a conspiracy of dark forces against Russia, against which it is necessary to struggle. But certainly neither one view nor the other corresponds to reality.
Globalization is the result of the neoliberal economic policy, which has triumphed on a world scale.
The result of this policy is that not only the Russian worker in the majority of departments are barely surviving, but also that the American workers receive less, adjusted for inflation, than they received 20 years ago. This policy was not directed expressly against Russia, any more than against America. Multinational financial capital simply vanquished industrial capital. The victims of this are the toiling classes of the entire world. It s clear that the poorer nations suffer more than the richer, but that is certainly not news, it s the logic of capitalism.