Niekończący się kapitalizm
Endless Capitalism

Summary/Abstract: A presentation of discussions on the idea of the end of capitalism based on an analysis of fragments of writings by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Karol Kautsky, Edward Bernstein and Rosa Luxemburg. An examination of those different stands serves the creation of a semiotic model of modern left-wing prophecies, which combines elements of scientific prognosis and the philosophy of history referring to the idea of progress. These two modern forms organising the future, described by Reinhart Koselleck, have replaced prophecy, but at the same time assumed many of the latter’s structural elements, such as the idea of the end, the apocalypse, and radical breakthrough. Modern leftist political programmes must within their structure make use of elements of apocalyptic prophecy; at the same time, however, those linear images of interrupted time must be grounded within an analysis of cyclical phenomena upon which prognoses are based. Present-day popularity of the notion of the end of capitalism has to tackle yet another idea – the infinite crisis, which poses a challenge for establishing prophecy in the economic reality of financial-monopolistic capitalism affected by chronic depression and stagnation.

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