Communism

Calm before the storm by Jules Dupre, 1870

Essence of Time. Chapter 19

Avis Krane

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(Links to previous Chapters are available here: Volume I and Chapters 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)

June 7, 2011.

 

PART ONE. ACTIVITIES

 

I begin each program in this cycle with the subject of our activity.

Let us begin with its specific aspects. We decided to conduct a second public opinion poll. A more detailed and deeper one, the results of which will help us answer a number of questions. This is a large project that will once again require great effort from us. Sociologists agreed to participate in this project. They have already finalized a questionnaire and created a group that will conduct a mathematical analysis of the survey results. More than one and a half thousand volunteers have also said they agree to conduct the survey.
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Presentation of the conceptual manifesto The Dialectics of the Spirit
Pyotr Danilov © Rossa Primavera News Agency

Kurginyan: We must move in Marxism’s wake on an untrodden path

Avis Krane

18.11.2019, Moscow.

The wager on neo-Marxism is pointless: we need to find something that has not been completely named and revealed, but which lies at the foundation of classical Marxism. Philosopher and political scientist Sergey Kurginyan stated this in his opening speech on November 16 at the scientific-practical conference of the Essence of Time movement, where the conceptual manifesto The Dialectics of the Spirit was presented.
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The invisible city of Kitezh by Konstantin Korovin. 1930

Russia is standing on a cliff but still can be saved – Kurginyan

Avis Krane

14.11.2019, Moscow.

The Russian state is defective; but it if fails, the situation will become only worse. It must live, and new existential forces need to evolve inside it, political scientist and leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan said in an interview to the Editor-in-Chief of the Zavtra newspaper Aleksandr Prokhanov published on the Essence of Time Youtube channel on November 13.
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Spirit of the Summit by Frederic

Kurginyan: Soviet Communism collapsed because Bolsheviks forgot about the spirit

Avis Krane

06.11.2019, Moscow.

The Soviet communists took care of feeding the people, but they completely forgot about human spiritual needs, and this resulted in the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the political scientist and the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan stated in the interview with the Literaturnaya Gazeta on October 23.
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Seeing the unit of workers to the front by Konstantin Yuon, 1928.

Essence of Time. Chapter 18

Avis Krane

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(Links to previous Chapters are available here: Volume I and Chapters 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)

May 31, 2011.

 

PART ONE. ACTIVITY.

 

We have already agreed to begin by discussing our activity. And because many questions are being posed about this activity and activity in general, we must try to give clear answers… This is very important.
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Portrait of Stakhanov by Leonid Kotliarov, 1938.

Essence of Time. Chapter 17

Avis Krane

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(Links to previous Chapters are available here: Volume I and Chapters 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)

May 24, 2011.

Today the residents of Donbass awarded me with the Miner’s Glory of the I degree badge. Meanwhile, I again peered intently into the very aged faces of those who had once managed separate branches of the Soviet economy and the Soviet economy as a whole.

These are amazingly pure faces; these are people on whose faces it is written that they didn’t steal, that they did not derive unparalleled joy from grand larceny. It is written so clearly on their faces; and especially now, with age taking its toll, it becomes even scarier, for it is very clear what has come to replace them.


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