03.11.2025, Moscow.
The top global elite discusses the key question of humanity: the question of Man, the leader of the Essence of Time movement, philosopher and political scientist Sergey Kurginyan said on October 31 on the Conversation with a Sage program on Radio Zvezda.
In particular, the views of the top elite are declared by Peter Thiel, a technological magnate of the Silicon Valley, the one who gave a start in life to US Vice President J.D. Vance. According to Thiel, humanity has shown no progress over the recent decades in improving life expectancy or treating diseases. Therefore, Man can be given up on, he has to be combined with computer, and artificial intelligence has to be used.
“The top elite discusses species Homo sapiens: is it ‘a dry branch on the tree of evolution,’ i.e. on the tree of life, or not? If species Homo sapiens is exhausted then we must have one kind of a world, if it is not we must have another kind,” Kurginyan said.
Thus, the future of the world strictly depends on the answer to the question of Man and his ability to evolve. According to Kurginyan, communism has “a critical global historical importance” exactly because it did not give up on Man, but it insisted that Man must develop and ascend. He reminded that, according to Marx, exploitation of man by man is not the only evil of capitalism.
“Marx directly says that the key evil of capitalism is not the alienation through excessive profit, i.e. surplus value, but the alienation from generic essence. This is his term. Anyone who does not want to read Marx’ major works can read the Manifesto,” Kurginyan said.
“In the icy water of egotistical calculation they drowned – what? Humaneness. Humaneness. What can now be alienated? Love, duty, the entire humanity, the human essence. As for alienation through surplus value, it is a primitive part of this alienation,” he added.
In the language of religion, the alienation of Man from his generic essence is the alienation from the God, i.e. a spiritual death. In order to overcome the alienation from generic essence, according to Marx, the division of labor has to be overcome.
In this context, it is unclear why Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev promised that in 1980s the Soviet people would live under communism, because the USSR was unlikely to have overcome the division of labor by 1980s. Still, although there are many questions to the Soviet communism, it is infinitely valuable because it promoted the idea of human ascension, Kurginyan stresses.
“The idea of new Man, of human ascension – it existed. It was removed to the periphery, and it was declared that the wealth of the working people was the primary goal. <…> But this idea was never cancelled. And communism itself allowed humanity to hope that there was one way and another way, so when the first way comes to a dead end the other way would proceed. The hope remains, do you understand? Together with this ‘-ism’ and this belief that Man can ascend, the hope was killed,” the philosopher said.
“And when this hope was killed, the ones who killed the Soviet Union went mad. As I said before, Pope John Paul II (who combated communism, as a Pole as well) said, ‘On the ruins of communism we have built a civilization of death.’ Do you understand what the value of this statement is?” Kurginyan stressed.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
