18.06.2025, Moscow.
Everything that was said during perestroika to justify the destruction of the Soviet Union — the condemnation of the administrative-command system and planned economy, the absolutization of the market, and the praise of democracy — turned out to be a lie, philosopher, political analyst, and leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan stated on May 30 during on the Conversation with a Sage program on the Zvezda radio channel.
Kurginyan spoke about the debates surrounding the planned economy in the late 1980s, when “market madness” overtook the minds of the educated classes. He explained to the citizens of the USSR at the time that the market could be compared to the autonomic nervous system, while the administrative-command system was akin to the central nervous system.
“Everything that originates from the central nervous system is the administrative-command system: signal — command — implementation. And everything that comes from hormones, enzymes, amphetamines, the body’s internal physiological processes — that is the autonomic system,” the expert clarified.
The political analyst emphasized that the market helps ensure the system’s functioning, but its absolutization is only possible with the destruction of the central nervous system, when everything begins to be regulated by the autonomic one.
“This happens with patients who have suffered severe strokes. Or it happens when your central nervous system — your brain — is replaced, and they say: ‘The brain will be in Washington, you don’t need it’,” Kurginyan stressed.
Essence of Time‘s leader also cited major US corporations whose combined revenues rival those of governments. In such corporations, he noted, internal competition between different departments is not tolerated.
Kurginyan also pointed out that while true artificial intelligence does not yet exist, the current “incredible computer performance and colossal memory,” despite running on “the most primitive algorithms,” already demonstrate the viability of a planned economy.
Another justification for the USSR’s dissolution was the supposed necessity of democracy. However, democracy requires citizens — it cannot be combined with a consumer society. And even in the West today, more voices are expressing the idea that democracy is no longer needed.
“Silicon Valley doesn’t need democracy,” Essence of Time‘s leader concluded.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
