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A.I.Bayramov:Economic time from methodological point of view: anatomy of conceptual vision

Only after the large scale social disasters incurred during XX century we understand that

the progress is not the universal historical rule. The obvious results of the reality and progress
show that progress itself has not one-sided effect on the society.

“… we have lost believe in the progress and consider that the notion of the progress is
wrong. The society is not developing limitless, in contrast, it is decreasing and each period is based

on certain believe, subsequently we reveal that that believe was wrong” [Frans S.L.1990, p.141].
Y.Bokhenski [Bochenski Y. 1983. p.120] believed that the progress is “the most harmful”

inheritance coming from the XIX century…

It is obvious that the progress was never systematic during any historical period from the
point of view synchronized flow of the time. Only time “density” or the degree of “density”

provides the grounds for the hypothesis regarding the incurrence of the progress. It also obvious

that during some developments in one realm, there can be regressions in other realm, therefore
due to shortness of the time it is hard to determine “what” is happened.

At the same time the reality of the progress is not single-valued in culture, human nature,
national-mental values and social structures.

However these assumptions cannot provide a ground for the strict conclusions regarding
the theory of progress being the erroneous assumption. In any case the development of humanity

and the different societies and folks can be an evidence for existence of the progress notion…

We agree only with the acceptance of the qualitative part of the historical development of
the progress… The progress is not a historical law (at the same time development is not a law of

world economy). Not depending on location and the time, the progress is a product, result and
conclusion of the mental activity of humanity.

Thus, even at the beginning of XX century the modernism started to be treated as an erroneous
approach. The following nuances made the model limited and development being treated as a

transition stage between the stages: the principles of free market and free competition being

illusion, the acceleration of the capital concentration process and increase in gap between the
countries, inability to apply one treatment to all economies, the exaggeration of the optimism

towards the non-stop development and absolute truth, the fact that none of the mentioned above

facts is not world-wide spread and possibility to assess such period of time in some particular
country. The time started to be assessed from the relative point of view.

The postmodernism as a theoretical approach which describes the society types after the

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