The West is a rotten, lax empire with many problems that needs the image of an enemy for at least some movement, philosopher, political scientist and leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergei Kurginyan said in an interview with BelTA on July 16.
“We live in the world of this rotten, rotten, laid-back empire, so to speak, which is distracted by many details, which cannot walk fast and which has all kinds of motivation problems, but it moves. This is its constant. Why? Because it cannot live any other way. It needs an enemy.” – said the philosopher.
As an example of the importance of this image of the enemy, the political scientist cited a landmark and highly respected book in the West by philosopher and sociologist Karl Popper entitled “The Open Society and Its Enemies,” where the author directly writes that since society is open and there are no collectivist ties within it, then the only thing that unites them is a common enemy. And this enemy, according to Kurginyan, was created by the collective West of Russians.
However, according to the leader of “Essence of Time”, when understanding world politics, it is important to understand why China also became the same enemy and what the dynamics of the political process is.
“Why do they need these hemorrhoids? I will explain. It is inevitable. As early as 1914 they discredited your idea that global capitalism, […]there will be peace, prosperity, unity, tyranny. They sowed the fields of Europe with the corpses of young people, they used gas at Ypres (that’s why it’s called mustard gas), etc., and they completely discredited themselves.” – said Kurginyan.
The political scientist believes that the 1917 revolution frightened this “rotten empire” so much that it had to make many concessions to its citizens in response to the different type of life offered by the Soviet Union and some other things, such as the right to work, treatment and rest.
“This is the Stalinist Constitution and everything else, the whole West went crazy with it. Major workers’ movements started. In order for these workers’ movements to somehow calm down and maintain power, they had to do two things: they had to feed them, that is, reduce their profits, and they had to corrupt them. That’s what they did! – the philosopher summed up.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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