Inertia of the Crisis

Abstract

The article focuses on the question of ecological crisis. It starts from the hypothesis that the latter is not only one of the three essential dimensions of the current crisis, but is the one that makes the current crisis the first ever systemic crisis of capitalism. After the addition of the ecological dimension, the current crisis is no longer a crisis of a concrete social system, but a crisis that transcends this concrete system and modifies the social system as such, inseparably intertwining it with the dynamics of the natural system. The ecological crisis is doubtlessly the most serious symptom of capitalism to date. However, since its interference in the environment has triggered and still triggers irreversible processes (which will continue for a while also after the elimination of all their causes), one thing is clear: in the form of its symptom, capitalism will exists indefinitely also after its own end.