Kurginyan: Disintegration of the Soviet Union must not be viewed too narrowly

03.02.2025, Moscow.

Some people view the catastrophe of the Soviet Union too narrowly, failing to see that it led to the collapse of the entire project of Modernity, philosopher, political scientist, and leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan stated on December 27 during the broadcast of the Conversation with a Sage program on the Zvezda radio channel.

The political scientist noted that today the United States has declared war on China, no longer a cold war but a hot one.

“This world of modernity, attempting to establish itself in the USA and discovering that it has nearly destroyed Modernity. It is heading once again toward a World War I-type conflict between old and new states armed with nuclear weapons,” Essence of Time’s leader emphasized.

Sergey Kurginyan pointed out that some people “view the disintegration of the Soviet Union too narrowly.” However, following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, much has been destroyed.

“I see a bell tolling for modernity, and these strained attempts to revive modernity… They are not as strong as they seem. Everything is undermined from within. Restoring modernity in Russia on the basis of the criminal reforms of the 1990s is an almost impossible task. It is a task for a new Stalin,” explained the analyst.

The political scientist noted that there are many manifestations of postmodernism within what has been built in post-Soviet Russia. He added that while some postmodernist forces have fled to the West, others remain, “and plucking them out with tweezers is a lengthy process.”

As Kurginyan emphasized, even if all postmodernist forces are removed from the country, it will not constitute a new project, unlike the Soviet project which “the Bolsheviks in fact considered as an alternative and supplement to modernity and which globally maintained a certain equilibrium.”

According to Sergey Kurginyan, the attempt to build a state while rejecting a new project is an attempt to “settle on a kind of world-historical ruins.”

“And all these former prisoners of US jails, now supposedly enlightened Islamist figures, and some strange characters from the Western world will run in these ruins. And so a building of a rather meaningless modernity, unsupported by anything, is highly problematic; it will rise and rise, only to collapse, undermined from within,” explained the philosopher.

Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency