If  one were to look for the traces of the future in the present, he would find the optimism expressed in this topic to be more justified than it was the case a decade ago. The world  was then dominated by omnipresent constructivism and loss of faith in democratic capitalism was evident. The economy seemed to be governed by all-powerful  theories of Marx, Keynes and Galbraith.  The notion of „convergence” which itself did not explain anything, served as a cover for aggresive actions of the Soviet empire to which the Western world had surrenderend in Helsinki. Within the scope of possibilities of the USSR, fed  with Western  marxism and Western grain, was the one of buying from the capitalists a proverbial  „Lenin’s string”. The whole „free world”  seemed to be following the road to  serfdom.

America turned out to be the first to become disillusioned.  It was there that the new 20^th century praiseworthy revolution, a conservative revolution, had begun. It revived the spirit of democratic capitalism which converted the Latin

civilization into the first   world - wide civilization. Adam Smith’s teaching  „about the causes of the wealth of nations”  also enjoyed its revival and J.A. Schumpeter’s doubts in capitalism’s ability to survive were replaced by absolute certainty.

This certainty was also shared by communism which found itself forced to  acknowledge its civilizing defeat.  It has sparked off two different processes within communism. One of them  is the course  of reforms which are often inconsistently implemented palliatives and may thus prove unsuccessful. The other one, much more profound and significant is the revival of Latin civilization. Its signs can be found in changing attitudes towards religion, law, property or nation. All this makes out of communism a non-ideological, police-state characterized by limited pluralism and market economy, the latter finding support in civilization-oriented society.

Communism is today nothing more than the longest way to capitalism, maybe  non-democratic, but still capitalism. For communism the only possible solution is a liberal solution. This is why today one can talk about moving toward an open world order.

"The other side of every  simplification is a complication."

 -Novalis

Andrzej  N.  Sadowski   /Pole/

born - 1963

student of law, President of  the Adam Smith’s Academic Society, scientific students organization at Warsaw University in Poland.