The Fall of the West – Roots and Repercussions

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Afrasianet - The barbaric positions of the occupying entity reflect its fear and the West's successor, especially in light of the rise of China and Eurasian Russia, and the cracking of the ground under the feet of the brutal global capitalist system that was established several centuries ago.

"The fall of the West".

We borrow this expression of the German philosopher, Spengler, who launched it after the First World War, and relaunch it on this West in all its expressions, American and European, in light of its shameful positions on Zionist crimes in Gaza, and after almost a whole century in which the West increased brutality, decadence and criminality, and one of its recent manifestations was Borrell's classification (Commissioner for Foreign Affairs in the European Union) of the world among white races and the rest as barbarians of the century, a statement in which he relied on the philosopher of American barbarism, Huntington, and his well-known book about Saddam Civilizations.

After the degenerate, shameful attitudes of Western leaders towards Zionist barbarism against women, children, schools and houses of worship in Gaza, at the Cairo summit they showed unparalleled brutality in decadence and reiterated their previous positions by refusing to sign a statement calling for a humanitarian truce that would allow the population to be supplied with water and food and to treat the wounded.

Certainly, the aforementioned barbaric shameful attitudes reflect fear for their Zionist protégé and their fate in light of the rise of China and Eurasian Russia, and the cracking of the ground under the feet of the savage world capitalist system that they established several centuries ago, because the fall of the West and its decline in the humanitarian test in Gaza have deeper and deeper roots, dating back to the so-called Westphalian system that emerged in the seventeenth century, under which capitalist states and their so-called liberal discourse were formed.

The roots of Western decadence

Since its founding in the seventeenth century, the state of Westphalia is the state of the West or the metropolitans (capitalist centers), which develop and feed at the same time on its global surroundings of regions, peoples and colonial countries, colonialism is an essential part of its nature, sources and resources, and did not intensify that as intensified by the Chicago School and its Jewish-American philosopher, Milton Friedman, who apparently derived from the idea of the chosen people and the biblical Goyim his basic idea of the savage capitalist jungle or social Darwinism, and similarly the ideas of Thatcher and Reagan emerged as an application of these Thoughts.

Colonialism was associated with the capitalist state of Western Westphalia as forests attached to the Great Blonde Forest, and it did not always pass its brutality blatantly, learning about other masks from the lies of urbanism in the early colonial periods, to the human rights lies of the imperialist phase of capitalism.

In the first case, the lies of urbanization originated from the existence of a civilized group confined to the capitalist West, and savage barbaric groups in the South and East that needed to be civilized by fire, and for this they also invented fields and social sciences such as Orientalism, anthropology and cultural centralism.

The second case was no less racist for many philosophers, such as Mill and Strauss, who linked the recognition of elections and the ballot box to their results in accordance with Western interests, and John Locke, the main reference for liberal groups, linked political freedoms to market freedoms.

Just as liberal elites were used against their own people in the case of urban lies, similar elites from human rights groups and color revolutions were used in the second case, and both times the tasks of these elites were to circumvent the national liberation program and replace it with illusions of liberalism, as well as dozens of experiments that showed the falsity of democratic claims, for example:

- Organizing bloody coups against democratically elected presidents or parliaments according to the same liberal model, as happened in Chile in 1973, as happened in Russia after the Soviet collapse when Yeltsin, a friend of the West, ordered the bombing of parliament with tanks, and finally the shameful positions of the European Union and the United States on Zionist crimes and the war of genocide against the Palestinian Arab people in Gaza.

The Historical Decline of the Westphalia System

In contrast to the flimsy theses that falter about the end of history and its closure to the capitalist era, as Fukuyama and his disciples went west and east from liberals, groups of color revolutions and foreign funding, it is more accurate that we are on the threshold of the decline of this system according to dozens of theoretical references from within itself, and over the course of its successive centuries, and these references, which do not include socialist readings and other approaches of thinkers of the East and the Global South:

- Spengler in his book The Decline of the West.

- Toffler in his book "The Power Shift".

- Brzezinski in his book "America between two eras".

- Paul Kennedy in his book "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers".

- Ulrich Schäfer in his book "The Collapse of Capitalism".

- Patrick Dinin in his book "Why Liberalism Failed".

- Naomi Klein in her book "Disaster Capitalism".

Reference is also made to writings born in the precursors and climates that preceded and followed the French bourgeois revolution, such as those of Gustave Le Bon and Montesquieu on the rise and fall of Rome.

Economic manifestations of the decline of the Westphalian system

Almost four centuries after the emergence of the capitalist system of Westphalia and its states, the importance of Marx's early readings in his voluminous volume, Capital, and in particular his approaches to the organic structure and the global social division of labor, reappears. A constantly overgrown technological head.

One of the repercussions of this is the second law, which is the global division of labor, which leads to transformations in the relationship between the center and the periphery, and the emergence of new industrial centers every time, and it is noted here that these centers take on a complex character that enhances the climates of decline and decline of capitalist Western centralism, which is the character of the East - South, which coincides with new forms of conflict in favor of East-South, resulting from the politically restored role of geopolitics and its well-known theories and the location of Russian Eurasia and the Chinese Silk Road in it.

Political manifestations of the decline of the Westphalian regime

In one of his early books, "America Between Two Ages," published at the end of the sixties, the strategist of US imperialism, Brzezinski, predicted the decline of the Soviet Union within two to three decades due to what he called the aging of the last generation of bureaucracy, and predicted the decline of the United States a few decades later, due to the widening contradiction between the classical structure of capitalism and the information revolution.

There are many other warnings from the heart of imperialism, including what Paul Kennedy wrote in "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers", but the most important political action that launched the countdown to all the founding narratives of the Westphalian state and system is what Toffler broadcast in his successive volumes (The Transformation of Power), and just as the imperialist mind represented by Brzezinski benefited from Marxist analyses in diagnosing the prospects and prospects of the Westphalian state, Toffler repeated the same thing when he noticed the widening distance between the major transformations in the capitalist structure and the role of the information revolution. Technology, and its political form, which has become obsolete and without significant changes, is derived from the theories of the social contract that accompanied capitalism in its early stages.

It is also indicative of this fact that the objective environment mentioned for this decay coincides with two phenomena that reinforce this decay:

-  The failure of the capitalist system to melt ethnic components into a real civil fabric that goes beyond the crust to the depths of social formations, as evidenced by the great possibilities of the disintegration of more than one capitalist state, due to internal ethnic tensions, such as Catalonia and the Basque in Spain, Scotland and Northern Ireland in Britain, Corsica in France and northern Italy.

- The renewed rise of fascism and Nazism in all regions of the capitalist West, resulting from the exacerbation of structural crises and the attempts of the capitalist clique to displace the aforementioned crises from their capitalist source to Asian, African and Latin American workers, who operate in conditions similar to the ancient world of slavery and slavery.

Intellectual manifestations of the decline of the Westphalian system

We know that the state, which emerged from the bourgeois revolution and the climates of Westphalia, was founded according to a system of grand concepts or narratives such as national identity, enlightenment, liberalism, man, reason, human being... Where did these concepts end up with capitalism entering its most brutal and degraded imperialist phase?

If the grand narratives mentioned have accompanied the first capitalism, the demolition of these narratives in the name of deconstruction with their basic titles and symbols such as: Derrida, Lyotard, and Barthes, is the main feature of the imperialist stage, from the Enlightenment state in the age of Kant, the philosopher of the Enlightenment, and the state of spirit and reason attributed to the German philosopher Hegel, to the world of savage imperialism and the proclamation of the death of man and critical reason, and the intellectual declines associated with this world:

1- Racism in all its anthropological and social Darwinian expressions and its political manifestations in Nazism, fascism and Malthusianism.

2- The philosophy of the market – the jungle and the survival of the most savage as formulated by the Chicago School and its Jewish-American philosopher mentioned above, Friedman, who considered any form of state intervention in the economy and social politics contrary to the law of natural savagery according to his view.

3- The death of man, whether in his first declaration through Foucault, structuralism and vulgar materialism or in his dehumanist stage, where human beings are referred to a mixture of gene engineering, brain play and biology, more dangerous than Mary Shelley (Frankenstein) and Orwell's (1948) novels imagined.

4-  The death of the mind, through various forms of exaltation of instincts (instinctive dionysis against reason and Apollo) according to the philosopher Nietzsche, or by transforming the mind from a critical mind under human control to a tool mind against it, as noted by the philosophy of neo-criticism at the Frankfurt School.

 

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