Abstract

The article deals with capitalism as a characteristic element of the modern post-industrial society and its culture. It is noted that, along with the historical, economic and other aspects of understanding the capitalism’s phenomenon, in this paper considers, mainly, its impact on modern culture in general, and the role of capitalism in the formation of a number of features of bourgeois ideology, in particular. For the disclosure of this issue in the paper appeal is made to some foreign and domestic researchers, who have paid special attention to this problem. Among these researchers can call following: P.A. Sorokin, R. Barth, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse. These researchers mainly critically comprehend the role of capitalism in modern society. Based on the analysis views this researchers on the role of capitalism in modern society and culture, this paper raises the question of the future prospects of the functioning of capitalism. Conclusion on the issue presented in the following: capitalism as an organic element of modern post-industrial society in the foreseeable future will continue to be the dominant form of its ideological, cultural and economic life. This conclusion is due primarily to such three factors: first, the decline in the modern world’s socialist systems, secondly, the absence of other clear alternatives to capitalism, and, thirdly, the relative stability and plasticity of capitalism itself.