Socio-economic structure

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Ancient slave society

Production is based on the labor of slaves, who belong to the owner as property; the basis of the economy of Ancient Greece and Rome.

Asiatic mode of production

Economy of river civilizations: a centralized state organizes irrigation and extracts surplus product from rural communities, there is almost no…

Bipolar world-economic order

According to Glazyev: after World War II, two centers — the USSR and the USA and two economic systems.

Capitalist society

Means of production are privately owned, workers are hired for wages, production is carried out for profit under market and competition conditions.

Colonial world-economic order

According to Glazyev: leader - Great Britain; colonial empires and the English secular cycle of capital accumulation (according to Arrighi).

Communist society

A supposed classless society with public ownership of the means of production; its first phase, according to Marx, is socialism.

Feudal society

Land belongs to landowners-seigneurs, peasants are attached to it and bear obligations — corvée and quitrent; power and property are structured…

Fifth technological paradigm (1970s–2010s)

Core: microelectronics, computer technology, software, telecommunications, robotics.

First technological paradigm (1770s–1830s)

Core: textile industry, pig iron smelting, iron processing, water engine, canal construction.

Fourth technological paradigm (1930s–1970s)

Core: internal combustion engine, automotive industry, oil refining, organic chemistry, mass production.

Householding

Production for the needs of a closed group — family, estate; in Polanyi's "The Great Transformation" he calls it a separate principle.

Imperial world-economic order

According to Glazyev: leader — USA; formed after the First World War and the Great Depression, the American century-long cycle of accumulation, the…

Integral world-economic order

According to Glazyev: emerging; core — East and South Asia (China, India), settlements in national currencies, regional integrations.

Market exchange

Form of integration: self-regulating market, prices are formed by supply and demand; labor, land, and money become commodities.

Primitive communal society

Society without private property and classes: tools and spoils are shared, labor productivity is low.

Reciprocity

A form of economic integration: exchange of gifts and services between symmetrically connected people and groups — kinship, community.

Redistribution

Form of integration: the center — leader, temple, state — collects the product and distributes it.

Second technological paradigm (1830s–1880s)

Core: steam engine, railways, coal industry, machine tool building.

Sixth technological paradigm (from the 2010s)

Forming: nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, genetic engineering, photonics, cognitive technologies.

Third technological paradigm (1880s–1930s)

Core: electrical engineering, electric power industry, heavy machine building, inorganic chemistry, steel.