Kurginyan: West does not need real Marx, it needs “Economics”

14.04.2021, Moscow.

Karl Marx was the last philosopher to discuss alienation from the human essence and human spiritual death, and the West will never accept this, political scientist and the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan said on April 5 on the Evening with Vladimir Solovyov program on the Russia One channel.

According to Kurginyan, the version of Marx who “wrote about the Asiatic mode of production” is really relevant today.

“The Chinese version has completely demonstrated the validity of real Marxism, i.e. the Marxism that essentially rejected Capital in the form used in the first volume, because neither the second nor the third volumes were yet written. Where did this concept of the Asiatic mode of production appear, where did he study it? In Russia. What was he studying mainly? The Russian peasant community,” Kurginyan said.

The analyst stressed that Marx’s associate Friedrich Engels, as a classical German, was indeed a Russophobe. Marx, in contrast, had a more complicated personality that could not be reduced to simple ideas. He maintained relationships with Russian philosophers like German Lopatin and Nikolay Chernyshevsky.

Kurginyan stressed that he denies any attempts to equate an economics-centered approach and Marx.

“Marx was the last philosopher who spoke about the essence. Be it the human essence or another one, it does not matter. Marx was the last among positivist and rational philosophers, so to say, Hegel’s students, who said that spiritual death exists, and spiritual death is so important,” Kurginyan said.

The leader of the Essence of Time movement explained that Marx spoke about the alienation from the human essence in The Communist Manifesto, which directly addresses human spiritual death, “Capitalism has drowned everything in the icy water of egotistical calculation.”

“This is actually a description of capitalism as a metaphysical evil. And this Marx, I think, is relevant. And the West will never agree with him. It will, however, easily agree with a Marx of Economics etc.,” Kurginyan concluded.

Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency

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