20.12.2021, Moscow.
Initially, the communist project was massive, and it had a great spiritual charge, but gradually the project cooled down and collapsed, said philosopher, political analyst, the leader of the Essence of Time, Sergey Kurginyan in the Objectivno program on the Belarusian ONT TV channel on December 8.
Sergey Kurginyan noted that the communist project had very ambitious goals.
“The goal of Man is his ascension, his self-development, liberation and awakening of all the higher human abilities. And these goals were proclaimed by the communist project. It spoke about an overcoming alienation from the human essence, and it also said that this can be overcome only when specialization of labor, the differentiation of specialties would be overcome. This is Marx!“, the philosopher explained.
He noted that such dreams, although they were “excessively utopian for their time,” were very ambitious.
“We shall carry the banner of our country through worlds and ages. Hear this – ‘worlds and ages’!” Kurginyan recalled the words of the song March of Enthusiasts from the 1940 Soviet movie “Shining Path”.
The analyst notes that as long as the project was of the large-scale, heated and inspiring, it lived on.
“As long as this scale was there, as long as the project was heated – and it was heated just by building this very socialist society, then the war, the postwar reconstruction and so on – the project was in such a still human-centered state, it carried a very big spiritual charge,” he explained.
But gradually, this charge cooled down and went away, it decayed. As a result, according to Kurginyan, as the project cooled down, this disappearing spiritual charge was replaced by philistinism.
“A sacred place is never empty, and an empty place has nothing sacred, which means that this place was taken by this consumerist philistinism in the Soviet version,” he explained. The philistine “more and more entered the project, he decomposed it from the inside, it became unclear what the Soviet leaders themselves believed in.“
30 years ago, on December 8, 1991, the Belovezhye Agreement was signed and the USSR ceased to exist.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
