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Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

grain-growers, blacksmiths, potters, etc. and their wives, children and parents…

In other words, if everyone occupies his place, a community of people acts as a
whole living organism, more precisely, as a social organism. Nature creates a certain
planetary organism in which every species performs a certain role for the sake of the
stability of the whole ecological system. Man, whether he understands it and wants it
or not, is only a link in the chain, a “cell” in a planetary “organism” — the ecological
system. And if for some reason this “cell” starts violating the stable equilibrium of
the whole organism, it can become a cancerous “cell”, the development of which, in
the end, can result in the death of the organism — our planet’s ecological system.
And this will inevitably lead to the death of the “cell”...

Human civilization is a social “organism” in which everybody performs a cer-
tain role for the sake of the whole human community (in a healthy social organism).
And this social “organism” is, in its turn, a part of the planetary “organism” — Mid-
gard-earth’s ecological system. Man, as a species, occupies a certain ecological niche.

But what has it to do with man as an individual? How can we define man’s role
and place as a person in the social “organism” of our planet? In fact, the vital capacity
of a social “organism” as a whole depends on everyone’s role and place in it and is
determined by the system of economic relations between people – the members of
this social “organism”. These relations are pretty tangled and multilevel. However,
without a clear understanding of its foundation, it is impossible to comprehend cor-
rectly its functioning principle. Is it possible to catch the guiding filament, to under-
stand the nature of the social “organism” in order to see its essence even through the
“troubled waters” of economic relations? If we are able to do this and comprehend
the basic principle even in the “troubled waters”, then we will understand what hap-
pens in a social “organism” and why, independent of its “size” and the level of its de-
velopment. But how can we do this?

Taking the ecological system as an example, we will assume that the social “or-
ganism” forms the economic system which consists of economic niches. Vegetable
organisms are the basis of the ecological system, because they synthesize the biomass
which is then consumed by the herbivorous species, the biomass of which, in its turn,
is consumed by the carnivores. In a social “organism” people do not eat each other;
we certainly do not take cannibals into account who, usually, do not eat “their” peo-
ple, but people from neighboring social “organisms”. And in “their” social “organ-
ism” they have almost the same economic relations as others. It is just that all
strangers for them are prey.

Therefore, let us come back to the comparative analysis. The basis of a social
“organism” is the people who are engaged in the growing of edible vegetable biomass
and in live-stock and poultry breeding, as well as hunters and fishermen who also
bring provisions to the “table” of a social “organism”. Other people prepare food out
of these products which is consumed by those people who form the social “organ-
ism”. The bread-getters actively co-operate with nature, with Midgard-earth’s ecolog-
ical system; all the others simply consume the food which they produce without par-
ticipating in the process. So, maybe, those who do not produce food, but only con-

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