Author:
Matsas Savvas M., National University of Athens (Greece)
Abstract:
Globalization as a mainstream narrative at the end of the 20th century has dramatically receded at the early decades of the 21st century. After the 2008 global crash and the Great Recession, followed by successive shocks (the Covid 19 pandemic and global economic shutdown, the escalation of international geopolitical tensions,) there is a reversal of official discourse. It is centered now more and more on “de-globalization”, its priorities and dangers. But both narratives in their mainstream and apologetic form are unable to interpret current world developments. Suffering from a fatal one-sidedness, they fail to grasp the dialectical interplay of contradictory forces driving simultaneously global trends of integration and fragmentation, embedded in the capital relation itself reaching its historical limits. A cognition- based production based on social cooperation and solidarity as it is emphasized by Noonomy research, has to overcome the barrier of the capital relation itself reorganizing society on genuine socialist bases.
Keywords: globalization, de-globalization, global crisis, noonomy
For citation: Matsas S.M. (2024). Global Trends of Integration and Fragmentation. Noonomy and Noosociety. Almanac of Scientific Works of the S.Y. Witte INID, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 34–40. DOI: 10.37930/2782-6465-2024-3-1-34-40