21.07.2022, Moscow.
The power of ideology is when an unarmed person inspires the masses with his idea so strongly that people go to shed blood for this idea, said political scientist, philosopher and the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan in a new issue of his Destiny author’s broadcast published on July 11 on the movement’s YouTube channel.
“I remember what the power of ideology is, and I remember what its weakness and misery are,” the political scientist noted.
He said that during the Civil War in Russia, when the White Guardsmen approached a city where Bolsheviks’ units operated, even at such moments the activists first of all listened to talks about the international situation rather than resolved any pragmatic matters.
“And they discussed that proletariat was rising in certain places and in a certain manner,” Kurginyan explained. And then the Red movement’s activists went to factories and barracks to agitate the people to defend their city. The Red actually believed in their destiny, in their idea, and this is what made them capable of leading people and winning.
“They were absolutely unarmed; even when they had a Mauser they went to thousands of people to tell them they needed to shed blood. And the crowds went to shed blood!” Kurginyan stressed.
Kurginyan told how his father, a renowned historian, once refused to believe him when he told him that near Kromy dedicated Red and White troops went to bayonet attacks against each other more than ten times in a row. Having read historical materials, Kurginyan’s father, who fought in the Soviet-Finnish War and in the Great Patriotic War, noted, “Yes, that is right. Still I do not believe, because we were withdrawn for restructuring after a number of bayonet attacks.”
In order to go to a bayonet attack so many times, one has to have a very heated belief in his idea, the political scientist is confident.
“And this was the case. What about now?” Kurginyan wondered regarding creating an ideology.
He explained that, in the issue of creating an ideology, we cannot return to the Suslov period, i.e. appoint a bureaucrat as a minister for ideology. The current Russian bureaucracy can only create forms lacking contents, and this is why such an initiative will bring more harm than benefit, the political scientist believes.
Russia cannot survive without ideology, Kurginyan believes. However, it cannot be proposed under the leadership of the current bureaucracy, but a different way is needed.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
