Depoliticization of War

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Abstract

[In Russian]

The phenomenon of information warfare can be better understood in a broader historical perspective and political-economical context. The collapse of the original democratic institutions and the ‘ascent of money’ in the 16–17 centuries gave birth to an arms race. The latter supports a stable demand for money on a political level. Capital and war make up a circle in which they engender each other.
Transference of the new value of money from a political-economic level of macro-cycles of capital accumulation to the microlevel of individual desires is made by an apparatus of advertising. The combination of advertising, capital and war generates the phenomenon of information warfare.
The largest enclaves of production of capital have been sources of global exports of the war from the outset. This causes the dismantling of political structures of direct democracy in the urban communities. Over time, the war returns from inside of western cities, militarizing the relationship between authorities and population. The very power becomes a depoliticized permanent special operation against the enemy who can hardly be determined as external or internal.