The World-System of Capitalism and the Future of Russia...: A View Through the Prism of Semiotics

Some results are presented of the semiotic analysis of the formation and genesis of the capitalist world-system considered as a global social order. Since the emergence and development of social systems occurs as a result of the complex interaction of various conditions and factors – economic, political, cultural and communicative, the need to develop an interdisciplinary theoretical platform that attaches key importance to semiotic processes is substantiated. The latter are inextricably intertwined with the practical and communicative actions of people, generating meanings, values and motivations – the driving forces of life of people and society. The possibilities of the communicative-semiotic approach as an interdisciplinary methodology are demonstrated by using the example of the synthesis of such achievements in the study of the capitalist world economic system as the theory of money and capital by K. Marx, the concepts of historical capitalism by I. Wallerstein and the capitalist world-economy by F. Braudel. All these theories and concepts do not oppose, but develop and complement each other, linking the process of formation and development of the capitalist world order with the formation of a special privileged class of capitalists, purposefully creating and expanding, over a long historical period, a special communicative and semantic space in the world. In this context, the problem of choosing and creating the future of Russia is considered. It is concluded that a decent and prosperous future for the country is impossible without the restoration of full political, economic and technological sovereignty with simultaneous systemic transformations of the country’s internal life and its external relations within the framework of a common semantic perspective that consolidates Russian society for the creation of a just, solidary, humanely structured, harmoniously and sustainably developing state and economy.