Is It a Main Way of Mankind Progress? Chapter 1

This article analyses the main characteristics of the modern western society based on organizational principles of market economy, political democracy and liberal ideology. Authors are using the tectological method of system analysis which was created by Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928). Yu. Kupert and A. Lutsenko are establishing influence of these modern organizational principles on stability of social system and are proving that "profitly-oriented" economic system, institution of regularly re-elected professional politicians and the principle of borderless personal freedom are only destructive for modern society. Positions of K. Popper and F. Fukuyama who postulated "the liberal democracy" as main way of social evolution are criticized by Yu. Kupert and A. Lutsenko because the modern western philosophers, speaking about "single democratic form of social progress", are using proveless sentences, but not historical facts. From the point of view of history it is necessary to recognise as main the other way of development of the society, existing some mil-lenia and steadily reproduced by the different people in various natural and socio-cultural conditions. This social system is based on «life-support economy», the authoritative policy and ideology of a collectivism. Unlike the system of «market - democracy - liberalism», the system of «life-support - authoritarianism - the collectivism» covers more than 80% of the population of the Earth and get higher level of structural stability. As to the system of «market - democracy - liberalism» the main reason of its domination in the modern world, according to authors of article, is not «attraction of liberal democracy to the free person», declared by Popper and Fukuyama, but the casual combination of the geographical and sociohistorical factors which have developed in the XX-th century: the Anglo-Saxon states - the basic areas of the system of «market - democracy - liberalism» - exclusively because of their geographical position were isolated from destructive influence of world wars and only therefore have reached an ascendent position in post-war world-system.

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