The medieval age was largely agrarian, religious and elitist.
System 1: Feudalism
Society: Traditionalism
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Economics: Feudalism
The early modern age was transitional.
System 2 & 3: Capitalism
Society: Conservatism or Liberalism
Government: Limited Monarchy (Britannia) or Republicanism (America)
Economics: Agrarian Capitalism + slavery (the South) or Industrial Capitalism - slavery (the North)
The modern age is largely commercial, industrial, financial, secular and sometimes egalitarian.
For whatever reasons, natural, by design or some combination thereof, Capitalism (thesis) was on the ropes in the early 20th century.
The challengers:
System 4: Marxism (leftwing antithesis, emphasis on class, reverse classism, deemphasis on identity politics, anti-racism, sexism…)
Society: Progressivism
Government: Dictatorship
Economics: Socialism
System 5: Fascism (rightwing antithesis, white supremacism)
Society: Conservatism
Government: Dictatorship
Economics: Class Collaboration
System 6 & 7: Social Capitalism (synthesis)
Society: Liberalism or Progressivism
Government: Limited Monarchy (Britannia) or Republicanism (America)
Economics: Keynesianism (Labour and FDR) or Neoliberalism (Thatcher and Reagan)
From about 1922 to 1933, Capitalism (thesis) got replaced by Marxism (leftwing antithesis), Fascism (rightwing antithesis) and Social Capitalism (synthesis).
Fascism largely died in 1945 with the fall of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, Keynesianism in the 80s and Marxism in 1991 with the fall of the USSR.
For whatever reasons, natural, by design or some combination thereof, Neoliberalism appears to be on the ropes in the early 2020s.
The only thing I feel sure of is, Neoliberalism will soon be replaced, the question is, by what?
Here’re some possibilities:
System 8: Rightwing Populism (Visegrad Group, Putinism, Trumpism, Brexit, Salvini, Bolsonaro…)
System 9: Klaus Schwab’s 4th Industrial Revolution, Great Reset and ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’
System 10: NeoFascism (white separatism)
Society: Conservatism
Government: Dictatorship
Economics: Class Collaboration
System 11: NeoMarxism (deemphasis on class, anti-classism, emphasis on identity politics, reverse racism, sexism…)
Society: Progressivism
Government: Dictatorship
Economics: Socialism
Or Anarcho-Tyranny
Or Steel/Plastic Age Collapse
All (good) things come to an end.
Will Rightwing Populism, ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’ and/or something else ‘save’ Capitalism and/or will it be replaced by NeoFascism, NeoMarxism and/or something else, albeit authoritarian?
Or, are we heading for Anarcho-Tyranny and/or Steel/Plastic Age Collapse, like the Bronze Age Collapse?
These’re the sorts of questions on my mind.
New frontiers like the Mediterranean sea in antiquity or the ocean in modernity can lead away from feudalism and traditionalism to capitalism (or distributism?) and liberalism.
However, eventually the socioeconomy is largely consolidated by wealthy and powerful merchants, industrialists, financiers, government or a combination thereof, or it collapses.
What sort of consolidation, or collapse will we have, or can they be delayed, and if so how and for how long, decades, centuries?
An aside: shortly after the fall of fascism there was little-no fiscal or social conservatism in the west, just as there was little-no fiscal or social progressivism in the 19th century.
Crony, or uncorrupt capitalism and liberalism aren’t conservatism.
Neoconservatism barely qualifies as conservatism if at all.