COUNTER-SYSTEMIC TRENDS IN MODERN POLITICAL HISTORY

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In the article E. Wallerstein`s world-system methodology is supplemented by the analysis of the counter-systemic factor in world history of the late Is till the beginning of the I century. The authors dwell on the key stages of the counter-systemic development. These are a) a countersystemic challenge embodied in the K. Marx theory; b) Lenin's attempt to make a global countersystemic revolution; c) the Stalinist technology of constructing and global expanding of the counter-systemic structure; c) self-destruction of the socialist counter-system during Gorbachev's rule; d) the development of counter-systemic processes at the beginning of the I century, when China begins to play a decisive role. The main markers of these processes are a) the Islamist religious-politial order, b) Russia's neoimperialistic ambitions, c) "left turn" in USA, d) the emergence of the Chinese global alternative, which embodies a new strategy, adequate to the I century realities. Its essence lies in the consistent embedding of a new world-system cluster into the existing world-system. One of the manifestations of such a new convergent strategy is the Belt and Path project. All of these may symbolize the end of the 500-year history of the old capitalist world-system and the beginning of a new historical era.

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