27.03.2026, Moscow.
US attempts to maintain global dominance lead to the construction of a de-humanized feudalism, once described by Russian philosopher Alexander Zinoviev, philosopher, political scientist, and the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan said on March 6 during the Conversation with a Sage program on the Zvezda radio channel.
Commenting on the military conflict in the Middle East orchestrated by the US and Israel, the analyst noted that the West is currently attempting to establish a new form of brutal domination in the world, one that leads not to a classical capitalist society, but to something far more dangerous.
Sergey Kurginyan recalled several Soviet philosophers whom Stalin very much valued in the late 1940s and early 1950s: Alexander Zinoviev, Vladimir Lefebvre, and Georgy Shchedrovitsky. However, in the late Soviet period, “they were forced to leave or put on the sidelines,” the political scientist added.
According to Kurginyan, Shchedrovitsky was both jealous and sentimental about Alexander Zinoviev, who once said, “We aimed at the communism, but we hit Russia.” The political scientist also recalled Pope John Paul II’s statement that “On the ruins of communism we have built a civilization of death.”
“Those were such frank admissions,” the analyst pointed out, noting that Zinoviev was a very intelligent man, despite his ambiguous attitude toward the Soviet Union, including his assistance to US President Ronald Reagan in the collapse of the USSR.
“Shchedrovitsky personally told me that Zinoviev has his own theory of Marxism, according to which capitalism is not a social formation,” Kurginyan stated.
He recalled that historians distinguish between primitive societies, slavery, feudalism, and capitalist formations. “So, Zinovyev believed that capitalism is not really a formation, but a transitional period. From what to what? From a humanized feudalism (Christianized and so on) to de-humanized feudalism,” the analyst explained.
“That is what is happening now! This period of transition is ending. There was a transitional philosophy, which could be described as – Modernity, the nation state, progress, humanism,” the political scientist emphasized.
According to him, the West has abandoned the humanistic mission of developing all of humanity, extolled in the works of the English writer Rudyard Kipling, despite the fact that he was an absolute apologist for Great Britain as a colonial empire and a very prominent intelligence officer.
“He said, ’Take up the White Man’s burden, in patience to abide.’ We would bear the ‘white man’s burden’ in India, we would modernize India, and then it would become like us,” Sergey Kurginyan reiterated this thesis.
The political scientist explained that this was called а catch-up modernity. “That’s what British imperialism was about. That’s gone too. No one wants to enlighten anyone or bring others to their own level anymore. That‘s been abandoned,” he added.
“This means we are facing de-humanized feudalism, which in this sense is worse than slavery, and the idea of a master’s power over a slave, which is incompatible with Christianity,” the analyst emphasized.
Kurginyan called on everyone, including those who are strongly leaning toward the religious norms of existence, to understand that “the master’s power over the slave is incompatible with Christianity.”
He also recalled that slavery was essentially destroyed by Christians, who declared that everyone has a soul. “As soon as it was said that everyone has a soul, and it’s unclear who will occupy what hierarchy in the Kingdom of Heaven, the foundation of slavery collapsed, because the foundation of slavery is that a slave is not a human, but a thing that can be used one way or another,” the political scientist explained.
“As long as people are viewed as humans, slavery collapses, and the legitimization of absolute slavery disappears,” Kurginyan emphasized.
Therefore, if the world returns to the authority of the master over the slave – “to Kojève’s fourth type of authority (and we see it returning)” – then Christianity cannot exist there, he explained.
According to him, even the Christian conservative movement MAGA (Make America Great Again), which supported Donald Trump, has noticed that something they do not like is starting to happen. “They’re retreating. They see that something else is happening,” the political scientist added.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
