New Rental Society
The purpose of the article is to carry out an analytical review of main provisions of the rent society theory by L.G. Fishman, V.S. Martyanov, D.A. Davydov. Rent-based societies are understood as societies whose institutional core is distribution relations. From a liberal point of view, reduction in the sphere of market exchanges in societies is an archaization of social life, but in conditions of global markets stagnation, this axiom has become controversial. In the modern world, market capitalism has reached the limits of its territorial and resource expansion, and there is a high probability that the world economy expects zero economic growth in the foreseeable future. This will lead to an additional increase in the number of social outsiders excluded from technological chains of the global market economy by the processes of automatization, robotization and digitalization. As a result, rent-based (distribution) mechanisms of access of different social groups to vital resources are becoming increasingly important regulators of the social order. In modern societies, which are intensely permeated with rent relations, market social groups are gradually losing their political and economic influence. The Russian society is a vivid example of its value-institutional core transformation under the rent principles influence of resource distribution. These principles, in the context of reaching various market limits and labor resources devaluation, are getting more frequent to meet the needs of the majority of the population. As a result, market values and metaphors, institutions and ways of legitimizing the political order are naturally pushed to the periphery of social relations. The state is becoming the key actor of social stratification, and the main criterion for access of citizens and social groups to resources is their usefulness for the state.