Socialism is the triumph of Kabbalah: Soviet philosopher Alexey Losev
Alexey Fedorovich Losev (1893-1988) is a Russian Soviet philosopher, antiqueologist, translator, writer, prominent figure of Soviet culture.
"The triad of liberalism, socialism and anarchism appears before us as the mysterious fate of the Kabbalistic idea and as a gradually growing triumph of Israel. Most liberals, socialists and anarchists don't even know and don't guess whose will they are doing"
ALEXEY FEDOROVICH LOSEV
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The views of A. are of interest. F. Losev on Revolution and Socialism, expressed by him in the "Addiments" to the work "Dialectics of Myth" (1930).
Losev seeks to build a model of absolute mythology, comparing different mythological/ideological systems and trying to look at them from different points of view. Formally, his analysis looks neutral and pluralistic, but the text and content of Losev's other works show that his sympathies are on the side of the type of "mythology" that Christianity offers in the form of a name.
From the standpoint of the name of glory, Losev believes, the New Age appears as the era of Satanism, and its most striking expression is the "cabbalistic idea", according to which the essence of human existence is growth, reproduction, nutrition, etc.; in other words, in the "kabbalistic" and "Judaistic" perspective, a person is reduced to his natural nature. Losev believes that socialism is the "triumph of Kabbalah". Here are excerpts from the "Additions" devoted to this issue:
"The triad of liberalism, socialism and anarchism appears before us as the mysterious fate of the Kabbalistic idea and as a gradually growing triumph of Israel. Most liberals, socialists and anarchists don't even know or guess whose will they are doing. And you can't demand awareness from them in these matters. From the point of view of the global philosophy of the myth, it is quite enough that somewhere there is such a system of thought and life that combines religion and mysticism, on the one hand, the attack of man on God and even human deity itself, on the other hand, it would be very strange if such a system was absent. It should be, because without it, the liberal-socialist anarchist system would hang in the air and it would not have an anti-religious meaning. The dialectic here is very simple: either God exists, and then you are His faithful son and slave; or there is no God, then you yourself are a god, but then you must sit in God's place and give yourself divine honors."
"The Kabbalah's order is that capitalism has been replaced by socialism, and liberalism has been replaced by a new authoritarianism. Humanity, society, social element are created. All individual search, all personal thirst is silent before her. Without the transition to "humanity", the covenants of Kabbalah would not be fulfilled, because the last and most specific category of Kabbalah is not an individual, but Israel. Therefore, socialism undoubtedly expresses the essence of Kabbalah more closely than capitalism, although, in general, these are the necessary dialectical stages of the historical development of Kabbalah in general"
Socialism is a synthesis of feudalism and capitalism.
"Socialism deprives God of the existence that liberalism still left him - of the ideological. In socialism, complete godlessness is introduced for the first time... And in the sense of substance, socialism, in fact, is a synthesis of papacy and liberal capitalism. Here capitalism is given as a papacy, i.e. a socialized kind of godless church, and is absolutized, and here papacy is given as capitalism, i.e. its functions are reduced to the regulation and socialization of economic relations. Church despotism coincided here with godless economicism"
"Socialism excludes the inner life of a person. Socialism is based on impersonal production. Socialism excludes the freedom of science, art, press, personal social undertaking, etc., etc. What does it give in return for all this? Isn't this some kind of absolute nihilism and complete suffocation of all spiritual life?"
"Absolutization of production, in connection with the wording of the element of nutrition, growth and reproduction, is a necessary dialectical synthesis of authoritarian and liberal mythologies. Socialism is a synthesis of feudalism and capitalism. And the most complete expression of the Kabbalistic spirit, because Kabbalah is the mysticism of birth, kind and trace of all the processes included here. Kabbalah is the deification of human nutrition, growth and reproduction"
"It is clear to everyone, both to the monk and to the revolutionary, that the world of Christ is something absolutely opposite to the revolution. For a monk, revolution is Satanism, because Rev. Seraphim Sarovsky also said that Satan was the first revolutionary. For a revolutionary, monasticism is a malicious enslavement of people, because the inner strength of a monk is indeed huge, and since all human power, according to the view of the revolution, is the strength of the subject, it is clear that monasticism is the very root of the malicious exploitation of the people by individual subjects. Those who have been to real monasteries know that in the atmosphere of feat and prayer, obedience, humility and self-test, monastic singing in the temple is angelic singing; monks sing like angels. And the bell ringing is the self-transformation of the creature, the soul itself, ascending to God and joyfully accepted by Him. But those who were among the real revolutionaries know how monastic singing can be perceived with disgust and malice and what affects of hatred a simple socience to everyday vespers causes. Only here the incompatibility of these two mythologies and the incompatibility of those socio-political conclusions that both sides make from their principles are known on experience"
"Denying God makes sense only when a person himself wants to sit in God's place, when he himself wants to become God. Otherwise, why do we need God-fighting? To kill God and take his place is a cherished dream of man, only a little later than the dream of full submission. Hence, if everyone calls the medieval worldview theology, then the new worldview should also be called Satanology, if not for the centuries-old blinding by liberal trinkets"
"Israel, this is an impersonal flowing collectivist mass of personalities embodying some units, true, but again completely alogically - an impersonal plurality"
"Kabbalah is a philosophy of collectivism; and there are no categories in it that would be so individualistic to cover everything else"
"Marxism is a typical Judaism, reworked by Renaissance methods and the fact that all the founders and the bulk of the successors of Marxism are Jews can only confirm this"
"Why can the Soviet government, so seemingly alien to the Russian people and overflowing with various foreign elements, can keep the whole country in obedience, and why several dozen active communists still rule the one and a half million people. Of course, not because the fullness of physical strength is on the side of these few dozen people. On the contrary, the fullness of physical strength is in one and a half million, not in several dozen. But because this happens, the people themselves are quite worthy of this government and are quite satisfied themselves, or, at least, not so dissatisfied as to pick up arms. Soviet power is held thanks to the platonic views of the Russian people (unless this multimillion-dollar herd of rams has some kind of worldview), and for the explanations of the Russian revolution it is necessary to go not to Marx's "Capital" and not to Lenin's speeches, but to Plato's "State" and Aristotle's "Politics". The dark, faceless, million-headed peasant hydra figured out that the Soviet orders were somehow beneficial for her. And that's the whole point. Ancient Greek slaves also figured out that it was more profitable for them to have an idle aristocracy over them in some respect. And this wit was enough for millennia."
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