HE SOCIAL AND POLITICALCONSEQUENCES OF THE PANDEMIA ON THE CONCEPTUALISATIONOF ECONOMIES IN THE WEST
If we look at the economic disaster which is taking place nowadays in the aftermath of the Corona-crisis has led the entire Western World to a point of no return, where the economies are not any longer capable to guarantee their survival through the market fundamentalism it has been preaching fort the last decades. On the one hand, we can observe a very serious and therefore dangerous trend towards the militarisation of increasingly authoritarian regimes, especially in the countries of the Global South. Under the pretext of counteracting the pandemia in most of these countries the civil governments use and are being used by the armed forces in order to expand their control on a local and regional level. On the other hand in the webinars and other cybertools the social networks, intellectuals and movements claim more and more loudly that this crisis must lead to a change of the economic paradigm. Ideas from the 1990ies like introducing the shortening of labour maintaining the same level of salaries, the concept of an unconditional basic income and the cancellation of foreign debt for the countries of the Global South are presently taken up again. In this context also, the concept of the Russian economist Sergey Bodrunov of reorganizing economy according to non-economic standards which he calls Noonomy is very important. At the same time that human mankind can increasingly rely on the achievements of a rather complex knowledge society for the material production of goods, it also offers a space for cultural creativity which transcends material production and opens the way to a more equalitarian society.