Kurginyan on regress: Debauchery became a virtue in post-Soviet reality

05.09.2022, Moscow.

The reality that appeared after the collapse of the USSR was based on momentary enrichment, where no one thought about the future, and this contributed to the general degradation of the country and to regress, said the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan in a new issue of his original program Destiny published on the movement’s YouTube channel.

“A barbarian enrichment, which became the basis of the productive relations, a factor as important as the productive forces, is supposed to extract everything from the basic assets taken for free as Soviet heritage. Making major private investments would mean thinking about the future,” the analyst said.

“If the dominating social regulations are based on the comprehensive formula ‘where am I and where is tomorrow?’ (as one can be shot dead, imprisoned etc.), who would care for the future? If the main ideal is a rampant vulgar consumerist luxury, how can funds for investment be accumulated?” Kurginyan wondered.

He reminded that debauchery, not economy, was declared a virtue. According to Kurginyan, this is what causes degradation and regress of both the human and the material components of the productive forces.

“Regress also involves so-called functional productive forces, i.e. the technological ways of production, the distribution of labor, the cooperation, the sequence of technological operations, and the management of the production cycle,” he noted.

Kurginyan noted that this system also incorporates the lost skills, the elasticity of the moral norms as well as the criminalization of life, when production efficiency has to compete with the efficiency of direct theft, so-called kickbacks – everything that depreciates any hard-to-achieve success through actual production efficiency, the analyst concluded.

Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency

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