ABSTRACT
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the globalization of national economies is being hailed as a civilizing revolution, the leitmotif of the century, and the logical consequence of the three industrial revolutions. The origins of the Cold War and other hostilities are to be found in the Communist utopia, which Marx and Engels elevated to the rank of a science and which Russia’s revolutionaries tried in vain to realize. The three industrial revolutions carried out by Western civilization have brought about a qualitative transformation in economic and social structures throughout the world. They have carried human civilization forward throughout the past century. The critics of great economic changes were incapable of resisting upheavals such as the evolution of agrarian society into an industrial society or the industrial revolutions that led to the transformation of industrial society into a service and information society.
