Kurginyan: at the end of the 80-ies a catastrophe occurred
Tomorrow in Yekaterinburg political analyst, director, founder and leader of the movement “The Essence of Time” Sergey Kurginyan will speak. Recently, a public figure who “tours” around the cities of Russia quite often has managed to attract the attention of many who share his views and, on the contrary, who disagree with the ideas of the movement and the proposed scenario of the future of Russia. The IA “Actual” decided to form its opinion on Sergey Kurginyan by asking him a few questions. In our conversation, Sergey Yervandovich outlined his vision of the state of affairs in the country, calling the events “Dumpster”, which the “Essence of Time” will fight with - that is, with everything negative that exists in the Russian state today. In order for the reader to make his own opinion, we publish the words of Sergey Kurginyan without editing in full.
-At the meeting on Poklonnaya Hill, you said that you are an opponent of the current policy of Vladimir Putin. What exactly do you criticize - social reforms, national policies, international relations?
I have talked about this many times. I will say it again. Although, unfortunately, a short answer to this question is impossible. At the end of the 80s, there was a terrible disaster. It was not only the meanings that transformed the population of the USSR into a solid solidarity were destroyed. It can be called the "Soviet people" or "union of peoples." The fact is that this community was, that it was sealed with certain semantic braces. And that these clamps were completely removed by perestroika, who organized a full-fledged war against this community. But that was not the end of it. Perestroika crushed the environment from which meanings grow. You can call this environment "ideal as such."
So, it was crushed by all of which could grow any sense. Even those that would suit perestroika. When I talk about the meanings that suit perestroika, I assume that someone from perestroika really wanted to organize a new life in our territory. The alternative hypothesis, you see, is too gloomy. But suppose that someone wanted to organize a new full life on our territory. After what the perestroika staged, this “someone” could not do anything like that. For it must be done with the help of meanings - albeit completely different from the former, but precisely meanings. And these meanings can no longer be brought into the world of God. After all, the environment in which they need to grow, destroyed. Feel the scale of the disaster?
She, by the way, lasts to this day. I call it “metaphysical”, but if someone likes it more, we call it “ideal disaster”. This is easier, although the accuracy of the formulation is lost. But when answering your question you need not accuracy, but intelligibility. From my point of view, I quite clearly described the essence of the act of Gorbachev. Has Putin been involved in this? Not. He was at this time, to put it mildly, not the largest rank in foreign intelligence. I was abroad. By definition, did not participate in any of the above.
I turn from Gorbachev to Yeltsin. Yeltsin continued the Gorbachev case. Television, print with unrestrained rage cracked down not only with history and ideology, but also with the soil from which any meanings grow. At the Security Council, headed by Yeltsin, it was stated that "the national idea should be money." This is the classic formula of a criminal state. Money is a very important regulator of life, a regulator of the processes occurring in the material environment. But to make them an idea ... This is the classic cult of the Golden Calf.
What is the cult of the Golden Calf? This is a statement of the validity of the sale for the money of everything, anything - because money is above all. Are you ready to sell your child, a loved one for money? Not ready. And sell the money for the honor, meaning? Well, so ... It was said that everything can be sold. And it aggravated the catastrophe of meanings. This is a monstrous war with meanings, organized, for example, by the same Gusinsky empire.
So, Yeltsin continued the destruction of all the ideal prerequisites for organizing life on the territory. That is, the strengthening of all anti-ideal prerequisites for the disorganization of life. But he added to this the material prerequisites for the disorganization of life, having built criminal capitalism in five years (from 1991 to 1996). The Soviet population did not have legal savings. So, the initial savings were criminal or subcriminal. To accelerate the construction of capitalism meant to give the property into the hands of criminal and sub-criminal elements. Chubais bluntly said that he did just that. Criminally and sub-criminal elements, having acquired property, began to destroy the material prerequisites for the organization of life in the territory. The crime for this purpose also exists to attack these premises. Turning crime into the ruling class meant attacking such premises with incredible power. Two processes came together - the catastrophe of the ideal prerequisites for organizing life in the territory and the catastrophe for the material prerequisites for organizing life in the territory.
What happened was not just the sum of two catastrophes. The amount is half the trouble. Unfortunately, an active chemical reaction began, during which two catastrophes, when combined, formed something more than each of them separately. Began a systemic regression. See how much you need to say in anticipation of the answer to your main question? Agree that this systemic regress — deindustrialization, de-culturalization, de-socialization, and so on — was built without Putin. Putin’s appearance in the political arena at the end of the Yeltsin period does not mean Putin’s full participation in all of the above. He was one of the functionaries of the System, erected by Gorbachev and Yeltsin. It would be more accurate to call the Antisystem built by them. Unless, of course, do not invest in this term gumilevskogo content. And since this content will necessarily be invested in a similar term by someone, I prefer to call this System named after Gorbachev and Yeltsin Dumpster.
So, there was a big trash. For this Dumpster ran greedy utilizers. Grabbed all that is bad. Robbed They killed. The cesspool prepared for the disappearance, disintegration into parts, transition under external control, and so on. And then Putin came. What did he do with the trash? He organized the garbage life. Divided the trash into parts. Established standards scavenge recycling. Appointed representatives who should monitor disposal. And so on. Who does not like the term trash, I can offer other terms. Well, for example, Zone. This is not just a criminal term. Although he, in this case, is fully competent. It is also the Strugatsky brothers. Remember their Zone H? Or is their castle doomed? Or their own roadside picnic? Or Stalker with his Zone? It's all about the same. Our country is indeed a disaster area - a disaster of ideal and material prerequisites that ensure a full life.
Here it is very important that not only life-supporting factors were attacked, but also prerequisites for regenerating these factors. The enemy made the decision to clean everything up so as to have a thousand percent guarantee that the normal life in our territory will not be restored to normal. But back to the image of the trash. Putin streamlined life in the trash. Created all the guidance systems pomoechnogo order and so on. The garbage can, preparing for a quick death, became the site of a long orderly agony. If Putin had not done this, the trash would have died in the 2000 year. Now, by streamlining garbage life, the trash can live up to the 2017 year.
How to treat this? On the one hand, if the trash had died, we would no longer discuss with you the reorganization of Russian life. And we are discussing. On the other hand, what's the point to prolong the waste of being? There is only one meaning - to accumulate forces in order to turn the scum of life into being, possessing a completely different quality. The question is not to organize life in the Dumpster, but to overuse the waste. Putin does not do this. He improves the organization of life in the trash.
Therefore, I spoke then and now I say that I am against this policy, this philosophy, and so on. Another component of this philosophy and this policy is the fastening of the Dumpster to Europe. They say that Europe needs a trash. But if our elite is not the owner of any Dumpster, but a Dumpster of Europe, then this is a great result for our pseudo-elite. After all, the Dump in the framework of a huge European home has a huge capitalization. And having gained such capitalization, our elite gains a pan-European status. The dream of a similar status and a similar place in the global division of labor was born in the Soviet era and was turned into a big project by the Andropov KGB.
What is entry into Europe? Here, in fact, it must be said exactly what quality we enter there. When negotiating, we must admit that now we can enter Europe as the Great Garbage Dump - ecological and so on. And our elite was quite ready to enter Europe precisely in that capacity. But then the difficulties began. Putin and part of his team are not ready to divide the trash into parts. This is your humble servant who calls our present being an organized garbage dump. And the patriotic part of Putin’s team has a different assessment of the qualities of this being. More precisely, there is a whole range of ratings. But the assessment I have outlined above does not fit this spectrum in any way. In short, when the Europeans said that in order to be integrated into Europe, the Dumpster was to be divided into parts, Putin and part of his team balked.
It was then that Bolotnaya Square, Sakharov Avenue, the “creative class” uprising and other far-reaching pranks arose. And now what? We must continue to insist on the entry of all of our garbage in Europe? What does it mean to insist on it? After all, Europe decides in what form we need it. And our elite does not have a different concept, apart from entering Europe. Our entire elite is made up of Westerners. Putin is no exception. This Westernism is alien to me at once in three senses. The first. Today's West is a mutant. This is not the classic West, which could, if not love, then respect. Second. No one will let us in Europe entirely, even as a single garbage.
Third. They need us in the form of garbage, and yes even divided into parts. But let them be necessary for them in the form of a single Dustbin - for ourselves, we need them in a different capacity. Having answered so extensively to the question of why I am opposed to Putin’s policies and why I’m at the same time an even greater adversary of the “Dumpster cleaners”, they are bog-sugar liberals, I can answer your other questions in a much shorter way.
-14 October, the Center for Strategic Research released a report on the changing political moods of Russian citizens after the presidential election. The results of a study of the opinions of representatives of different segments of the population showed that people, on the one hand, do not want revolutionary upheavals, on the other hand, they do not believe in a “legitimate change of power in elections”. At the same time, the credibility of the institutions of power and, first of all, of the president has significantly changed "from negative to hostile and alienated." In your opinion, can these sentiments in society change if Putin maintains the ideology of stability?
First, people are increasingly aware of the waste of life that is offered to them. They are unhappy with this. Can they be blamed for it? Secondly, the garbage has its own logic. Its resources are not infinite. And the division of scavenging resources always does not suit very many. Wash life, by definition, is unstable.
It can only prolong its power by creating prerequisites for insurrections organized according to the same scouring law. The garbage-clearing hungry and half-starved elite, not allowed to a particularly large-scale robbery, will rebel against the garbage-collecting super elite.
And also against the sharing of resources with the entire population of the trash.
And also against the axiom, according to which the cesspool should be one and indivisible. Life in the garbage is decomposition. And decomposition cannot be combined with the stability of any type, except, of course, the stability of the liquidation one (we destroy part of the breeder population and by this we buy temporary stability).
- Is it even possible that the alarming signals for the authorities will be heard, and we are waiting for a change in course or its substantial adjustment?
What are the rules for making these adjustments? By garbage or anti garbage? What will be the social base of adjustments, their vector? You must admit that everything depends on the attitude towards the garbage. At least from the recognition of the correctness of this metaphor. Otherwise, there is no way out of the impasse. You can not navigate in reality and the more so to change it if you ignore all the main characteristics of this very reality.
- As the Levada Center study showed, almost two thirds of citizens believe that the parliament and other public institutions in Russia, including the federal media, are subordinate to the executive branch. The most amazing thing is that such a “vertical of power” does not suit the majority of Russians (66% of respondents) with insufficient rigidity. This suggests that citizens do not see a real alternative, despite the increased protest moods, the emergence of new movements and parties, there is no confidence in the leaders of the opposition. What specific program can the movement “The Essence of Time” offer in addition to theoretical studies? Is there such a program, or is it under development?
I do not believe the "Levada Center" in general. And I have the most serious reasons for this. The “Essence of Time” has its own sociological center “AKSIO”. We conduct much more detailed research than the Levada Center. Very experienced sociologists work with us. As for the media, there is no subordination of their single executive vertical. To do this, just watch the program Maksimovskaya REN-TV. There is trash optimism and trash pessimism. “The Essence of Time” is really seriously developing an anti-washing program. In essence, for this we are gathered.
- Will your movement be transformed into a party in order to have more opportunities to influence social and political processes in Russia?
For thirty years now I have been following the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood organization with great attention. From the ideological point of view, this organization is terribly far to me. And from the political - hostile insofar as professes the principle of the caliphate, that is, the destruction of my homeland. But from the point of view of the system architecture, the Muslim Brotherhood is organized very effectively. This is not a party, but much more. I will emphasize once again - I am guided by this type of organization from the point of view of the system architecture, and nothing more. It is very important to emphasize.
Well, now, we need to create something more than a party, and then create a party or parties, this is our principle. Any other type of organizational construction contradicts our ideas and principles. First we will create something more than a party, and then a party or parties. The simplest example is that we have a lot of supporters in the countries of the so-called near abroad. What position will we put them in if we restrict ourselves to elementary party building?
-Now we are witnessing an attempt to create an interesting alliance - the Communists + Orthodox. Is there a chance for this union, and what is the potential? Is this a real alliance or friendship against someone or something? For example, against the same package of laws on social patronage and juvenile justice? Will the alliance disintegrate after reaching the goals? After all, whatever theorists may say about “Orthodox communism” or “Christian communism”, for many ROC adherents the communist regime is, first of all, persecution of the church, destruction of the priesthood, closure of the churches?
We are talking about the real synthesis of communism and Christianity, communism and religion in general. What does the past have to do with it? There were mistakes in the past, otherwise we would not fall apart. We want to create the USSR 2.0 on the basis of a very strongly transformed communist ideology. And we believe that this is possible. In Latin America, something similar has already happened. Yes, there is a huge bill among religious people for atheistic communism and atheistic communists for religion. But there is something more - the fate of the Motherland, which we defend, of overcoming degrading pomoechnom being and so on. On this basis, much can be overcome. And I am convinced that this overcoming will be realized. At least, “The Essence of Time” only works for this.
-How much does our opposition, with its charismatic leaders, who are not leaving television screens, represent a real force, ready to change life in the country for the better, and a threat to power? Who said these leaders are charismatic?
In what sense do they not leave the screens? What will be the role of these screens in the coming years? Can we save the Motherland if we do not create alternatives to these screens instead of rushing to them? As for the threat of power, then again, the question of the garbage can be at the forefront. What power? Power over the trash? Hegel would say "power for the garbage." Or power, overcoming the "garbage rock"? "The Essence of Time" is only interested in overcoming this Doom.
-What will be the regrouping of the forces of the opponents of the Kremlin? What alliances do you see?
I have already named some principles. For example, the principle of the integrity of the trash. Or the principle of entering the garbage in Europe. According to these principles, the forces will be regrouped. Liberals will demand the dismemberment of the Dumpster in the name of its fastest entry into Europe. Conservatives will abut. Disgruntled bourgeois will require the redistribution of resources of the trash. The owners of the trash will uphold the status quo. And so on. It is possible and necessary to be engaged in detail analytics Dumpsters. But from a strategic point of view, only one thing is important - the accumulation of forces to overcome the waste. At least, “The Essence of Time” will deal only with this.
- From the point of view of history, what scenario of events in Russia do you predict?
Well, you also ask about the story. This, in fact, still needs to be proved that we are at the next stage of the historical process. The main scenario, of course, will be inertial. This will be the scenario of the balance of intrawash forces while maintaining a scavenging consensus framework. But the point is not what the main scenario will be. The main scenario in August 1917 was the complete destruction of Russia. And we still somehow twitch, even now. And before that, several times saved humanity, for which it answered us with black ingratitude. By the way, is it possible to call such an answer “historical”? Alas, in such an interview it is impossible to fully disclose the meaning of such categories as “historicity”. I already balance on the verge of being allowed for an interview, answering your very difficult questions.
“Do you really think the return of socialism is real?”
The movement "The Essence of Time" comes up with the concept of "USSR 2.0", how much is the revival real, and most importantly, relevant? And how do you think this can be realized, is interested in the mechanism itself and the timing of the implementation of the idea? Or Dumpster - or USSR 2.0. In today's life, alas, the alternatives are just that. I say “alas” because I understand how difficult it is to put the 2.0 into practice in the USSR. But I just don’t see any other alternatives that allow us to overcome the monstrous situation of the Dumpster.
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