01.10.2025, Moscow.
Russian cosmists, such as Nikolai Fedorov and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, dreamed of universal resurrection and universal immortality, while capitalism desires the same, but only for the elite, philosopher, political scientist, and leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan wrote in his article Responsibility, published on August 21 in the newspaper Zavtra.
The philosopher mentioned the works of Russian cosmists who spoke about immortality and the resurrection of ancestors.
“First and foremost, their work concern universal resurrection, which capitalism absolutely does not want. Secondly, their work concern universal immortality, which again is profoundly alien to the essence of capitalism,” Kurginyan explained.
The political scientist noted that capitalism would like to secure immortality for the elite, while suppressing everyone else as much as possible. “In other words, to implement Project Grand Inquisitor described by Dostoevsky, dividing people into the long-lived and the short-lived, into rulers and happy infants,” the philosopher described this project.
“Thirdly, and this is the main point, they [Russian cosmists] were not talking about ordinary immortality while preserving the existing type of materiality,” Kurginyan stressed. He reminded that such immortality was already ridiculed by the Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels.
“They were talking about the profound transformation of matter, that very flesh from which man is made. According to those who strove for such immortality, matter must acquire an anti-entropic character,” the philosopher explained.
He cited the works of thinker Alexander Bogdanov, who pointed out that the second law of thermodynamics inevitably leads to the cooling of the universe. The political scientist noted that this assertion is correct within the framework of classical thermodynamics.
“Relying on this classical thermodynamics, or being more precise linear irreversible thermodynamics, Bogdanov argued that humanity would eventually have to explode the cooling universe in order to reheat it and allow life to develop again, but as an anti-entropic process, ,” Sergey Kurginyan explained. He emphasized that the Marxist scholar Evald Ilyenkov held similar view.
“It is impossible to discuss human immortality without discussing the transformation of the universe in which humanity will dwell,” the philosopher stressed.
However, much has changed in physics since then, with the emergence of new disciplines such as nonlinear thermodynamics and quantum thermodynamics. “In this sense, the heat death of the universe is a relic of earlier conceptions of thermodynamics, which influenced ideas about the nature of life and death,” Kurginyan wrote. By the 21st century, advanced science had already overcome the views of classical thermodynamics.
“And that means the entropic doom, that is, decay, decomposition, has also been overcome. This means matter can be freed from the entropic virus of death, which once seemed insurmountable to those confined by the erroneous, as it becomes clear now, concepts of the second law of thermodynamics,” the thinker emphasized.
According to him, humanity needs people who will study this knowledge and unify them. A methodology for such integration must also be developed.
