Contemporary Political and Non-Political Actors of the Social Revolution

Abstract

The article analyzes the issue of actors of the post-capitalist social revolution. The question of changing the capitalist social formation is relevant due to the fact that capitalism is increasingly hindering the development of productive forces, including human development. At the same time, the relative impoverishment of workers deprives them of the necessary resources for a successful political struggle. Consequently, a typical post-capitalist social revolution is not accompanied by an internal political revolution “from below”. However, the political actors of the social revolution manifest themselves as such (mostly indirectly) not in the domestic but in the international arena, contributing to the loss of global economic hegemony by the global capitalist system, which determines the process of its political self-liquidation. Since the substantive source ofsocial revolution is not the class struggle, but the development of productive forces in everyday practices, the proponents of post-capitalism should reconsider current social problems in the context of this development and, above all, the comprehensive development of individuals. The system-forming factor of productive forces complication is the development of labor activity, and therefore the non-political actors of the post-capitalist social revolution are the actors of universal labor, producing social-harmonic relations instead of social-atomistic ones. The current crisis calls into question the supposed class domination of the individualistic “personaliat”. The emergence of universal labor destroys the contradiction between mental and physical labor, leading to the gradual elimination of class antagonism. In this regard, the proponents of post-capitalism should strive to increase the number and social influence of representatives of universal labor.

Keywords

• social revolution
• political revolution
• capitalism
• productive forces
• universal labour