Noonomy as the Material Basis for a Prospective Humanitarian Model of Public Order

Sergey Bodrunov

doi:10.3390/su13031454

Abstract

The development of the modern technological revolution and evidence of a deepening civilization crisis make us pose the question about the prospects of the social and economic transformation of the modern society under the influence of certain factors. S. Bodrunov approaches the resolution of this problem from the historical perspective on public development. He relies on methodology of the classical political economy and considers changes in the material basis of production as the main drivers of upcoming changes. Technological shifts lead to changes in the content of human activity and opportunities for the satisfaction of human wants. They also result in a gradual removal of humans from immediate production and cause shifts in the entire social structure. The author shows that the next stage in the development of the modern civilization will be the formation of a new type of public order–the New Industrial Society of the Second Generation (NIS.2), which stipulates gradual creation of prerequisites for transitioning from the economy to the noonomy. The noonomy constitutes a non-economic way of satisfying humans’ reasonable wants. It will serve as the material foundation for forming and ensuring the functionality of the noosociety. The article determines that humanitarian culture as a timeless value exerts crucial influence on the positive development of transformation processes considered under the theory of noonomy.

Highlights

Two worldwide economic crises of the twenty first century and the pandemic that exacerbated the second crisis made scholars of civilizational issues, as well as politicians and experts, including speakers of the World Economic Forum, perceive the upcoming colossal transformation of the global public order and bring up the need to introduce major changes in socioeconomic institutions and politics and find a way to respond to the challenges that accompany this transformation and increasingly escalating global problems.But the task at hand is not limited to institutional and political reforms
The article determines that humanitarian culture as a timeless value exerts crucial influence on the positive development of transformation processes considered under the theory of noonomy
The task at hand is not limited to institutional and political reforms. It is much deeper and broader: on the one hand, there is an objective urgent need to transition to a new type of public development; on the other hand, for the first time in the history of human civilization we have created the material capability for such transition that would negate and inherit the achievements of what Karl Marx labeled “an economic transformation”

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Introduction

Two worldwide economic crises of the twenty first century and the pandemic that exacerbated the second crisis made scholars of civilizational issues, as well as politicians and experts, including speakers of the World Economic Forum, perceive the upcoming colossal transformation of the global public order and bring up the need to introduce major changes in socioeconomic institutions and politics and find a way to respond to the challenges that accompany this transformation and increasingly escalating global problems.But the task at hand is not limited to institutional and political reforms. 150 years ago, i.e., the transition to such public order that would fulfill Marx’s forecast about stepping “to the side of the production process,” and implement many other trends that showed their true promise only in the beginning of this century. It is this objective process that constitutes the essence of the transition to the noosocietal public formation considered its mechanism for the satisfaction of wants being referred to as ‘the noonomy’—unlike the economy which serves as the mechanism for wants satisfaction in an ‘economic’ society.

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