The collapse of Ottoman despotism and Tsarist Russia created great hope that humanity would be liberated from oppression, but this hope was quickly dashed by the totalitarian character of the new State structures that emerged. The powers and positions of feudal powers were reproduced in the modern state apparatus in more refined, more centralized and more repressive forms.
The First World War was both the laboratory and the stage of this transformation. The vacuum created by the collapse of empires was filled by a new State mind shaped by capitalism in its own interests. Racism and Religionism were transformed into ideological tools that ensured the continuity of the war, legitimized the expansion of markets, and made possible the control of precious elements, oil and all underground riches. Thus, the humanity of the world can now see with the naked eye that behind every war, whatever its name, is the market expansionism of Capitalism and that this logic is dragging humanity into an intercontinental war economy. While capitalism has organized war itself as an economic model, war has become a mechanism that opens the door to both capital accumulation and new markets. Whatever the justifications, the root cause remains the same: the constant greed for profit, the competition between monopolies, the blood-fueled growth of the arms industry and the cycle of capital's Giantization-Shrinkage. What a pity that the whole of humanity has been chosen as the victim of this cycle.
The ideological tension of the Cold War, which began immediately after the First World War, combined with the fascist rise of the Second World War under the name of the “War against Communism”. The hot war waged by the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and France during this period, when Hitler's fascism was drenching Europe in blood, resulted in a massive destruction that claimed the lives of more than 120 million people. The new Capitalist order that emerged from the ashes of this destruction chose the USA as the epicenter to secure its own Economic, Military and Political interests under the name of Globalization. The relative democratic Rights and Freedoms established on the European continent were in reality turned into a cover for a collaborative system that reproduced colonialism.
By integrating European capital into its system through logistics, finance and market expansion, the US succeeded in establishing a new Cold War line against the Soviet Union. In this process, welfare state projects in Europe were used to organize the masses with the claim that “Socialism impoverishes”. However, at the same time, labor control was tightened through Robot Technology, Data systems, Banking and Insurance. The economic and political organization of labor was systematically restricted. While heavy industry and factories were moved to countries with cheap labor, instead of solving the problem of unemployment in these countries, taxes on the profits were transferred to capitalist centers through new Banking and Insurance agreements.
Robotization and Digitalization have created a new field of labor. Millions of people working in areas such as internet shopping, software, data programs, transport and delivery services have turned companies into world giants with the data they produce while being exploited under compulsory supervision, without the possibility of unionization. Thus, both labor and capital took a new form. The structure of capitalism has turned into a more invisible, more technical, more global mechanism of exploitation. Economic, political and professional organizations became inefficient, and the blind knot of a life where every decision is determined by capital directly affected human life. This new order has made capital unlimited while making labor invisible, the workforce fragmented, organizational opportunities destroyed, economic dependency deepened and the ecological crisis has become the main problem. Diseases have increased, the new treatment centers that control them have accelerated death on the one hand, while on the other (Genetically Modified Organism) GMO products have opened the door to new diseases. Capitalism has become more aggressive as it has become more brutal, while sucking the blood of the peoples, its giant corporations have grown larger by shrinking small capital. This growth is so blinded that it multiplies its own gravediggers.
The decisive role of the US, Britain and France in the Second World War reshaped the political fabric of Europe after the defeat of Hitler's fascism, the democratic governments established after the war formed both the ideological and institutional basis of the Western-centered capitalist order, and this order was reinforced throughout the Cold War by the military might of NATO, the global reserve currency of the dollar and the cultural superiority of US hegemony. However, today's historical moment shows that this order is entering a phase of disintegration.
In my opinion, these powers will no longer be the decisive axis of the Third Sharing War. While the US, UK and EU triangle is entering a historical decline process due to economic contraction, social polarization, the shift of production power to Asia, hegemonic fatigue and the weakening of its global intervention capacity, China, Russia and South Korea are rising as a new axis of global intervention with cheap labor, technological breakthroughs, energy policies, military modernization and long-term strategic planning capacity.
This rise is not only an economic challenge, but also a cultural, technological and geopolitical one. It will pave the way for global capital to restructure its own system, especially in the Middle East; while the old collaborative structures are being liquidated, the energy veins, logistics corridors and political architecture of the region will be redesigned by this trio. Thus, these powers, with greater capabilities, more aggressive economic tools and more flexible geopolitical moves, will become the ruling actors in the Fourth Partition War that will unfold in Africa.
This process is not only an inter-state power shift, but also a fundamental transformation of the phase change within global capitalism itself, capital's search for new geographical centers, the reorganization of production-consumption chains and the ways of producing hegemony. The world system is going through a historical rupture that is redefining center-periphery relations, erasing the shadows of old empires and making visible the birth pangs of new power blocs.
In the Middle East, countries close to the Soviet Union were reshaped through racist and religious political engagements. The proxy wars waged through political-Islamist organizations such as Al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra, Taliban, Hamas and HTS, combined with authoritarian regimes such as Saddam, Gaddafi and Assad, established a system of heavy oppression on workers, peasants and broad masses of people. This process, which can be called the Third War of Sharing, laid the groundwork for the redesign of the Middle East. With the Greater Middle East Project (BOP), the Cold War was re-escalated and the dictatorial regimes in the region were targeted on the grounds of Racism, Religionism and Anti-Democratic practices.
However, this targeting was not for the freedom of the peoples, but to establish the new balance of power of global capital. While China, South Korea and Russia seem to be the powers that will be effective in the Middle East today, the economic capacity, underground riches, technology production and cheap labor advantages of these countries create a new axis that will determine the future of the region. Africa's underground riches, cheap labor and strategic location are candidates to become the stage for the new war of division of global capital. The historical cycle of capitalism is being reshaped as a war economy circulating between continents, while humanity continues to pay the heavy costs of this cycle.