Characterizing the organizational dynamics of financial capitalism

Based on tectological system analysis developed by Alexander Bogdanov (1873- 1928), the article traces the evolution of financial capitalism in the XIXth and early XXth centuries. The author examines the making of «plutocracy» as a group that speculates on virtual symbolic values at the expense of the production of life-sustaining necessities, and characterizes the connection of «plutocracy» with militarism and the distribution of goods typical for «war communism». An alternative to this, as Bogdanov believed, is a «collectivism» based on a planned economy. The article ends with a complex description of the main reasons for the incompatibility of «plutocracy» and «collectivism».