17.11.2024, Aleksandrovskoye.
The horror of World War One set two choices: either fascism will create a blonde beast, a brute of a man, or communists will create a new Man, the leader of the Essence of Time movement, philosopher and analyst Sergey Kurginyan said in his congratulatory address on the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution on November 7.
Kurginyan reminded that it became perfectly clear in 1914 that what had been claimed failed to come true. A rational, intelligent Man, which was glorified and made the key driver of the humanist project, was expected to be unable to wage wars in those conditions because it would be too irrational, and peace was expected to establish forever.
However, World War One demonstrated the opposite, and in 1914 it became clear that people were still killed, and that the fields of Europe were covered with the bones of young men, and the enormity of this eliminations (the use of gas at Ypres etc.) looked more shocking those days than it looks now.
“By the way, neither the fascists nor their opponents during World War Two ever used gas. They were too frightened during World War One. But it was not only gas that frightened them, everything did. The Man!” the philosopher stressed.
And then a choice had to be made: either fascism will create a blond beast, a brute of a man, or the communists will create a new Man. Thomas Mann, one of the actually last prominent humanists of the 20th century, said that an agreement with the Bolsheviks, unlike the Nazis, was possible based on the will to the improvement of humanity. This will existed, Sergey Kurginyan notes.
“The moment when the despair of World War One was close to producing Nazism, self-elimination, total elimination of any further human existence, the Great October Revolution happened. The dawn of a new era came from the East, all the Western humanists said. And that was true,” the analyst reminded.
One way or another, dreams about Man emerged. His ascension became a priority. Starting from basic things like universal education, the meaning of the labor activity, an absolute rejection of a multi-storeyed society that would made the development of all the people impossible as it would remove anything like that.
“And this brought up a hope that Man would be different, and that it would be achieved within the communist project. The communist project had no other meaning. Everything was aimed solely to this as long as it remained heated,” Sergey Kurginyan stressed.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
