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| − | We are neither a political organization, nor a commune that separates itself from the outer world. Our aim is to walk the edge of the razor between these two forms. We live in the ordinary world, we work at museums and institutes, workshops, laboratories, archaeological sites and other places, we are pedestrians and passengers along with you, but we keep a spiritual unity among ourselves. One of the main elements in our relations is a principle of conciliarism: a commitment to reaching a concerted point of view without compromises and without suppressing one another’s viewpoints, taking into account the personal experience of each of us. Our arrival at a common decision is possible thanks to our deep openness and our critical analysis of everything that we have known and | + | We are neither a political organization, nor a commune that separates itself from the outer world. Our aim is to walk the edge of the razor between these two forms. We live in the ordinary world, we work at museums and institutes, workshops, laboratories, archaeological sites and other places, we are pedestrians and passengers along with you, but we keep a spiritual unity among ourselves. One of the main elements in our relations is a principle of conciliarism: a commitment to reaching a concerted point of view without compromises and without suppressing one another’s viewpoints, taking into account the personal experience of each of us. Our arrival at a common decision is possible thanks to our deep openness and our critical analysis of everything that we have known and comprehended. |
From the very beginning we were inspired by the ideas of communism, noosphere and conciliarism. We aimed to grow into the people of a communist world and to create communist interpersonal relations in the spirit of the paleontologist and science fiction writer Ivan Efremov. (We do not consider ourselves to be his disciples, however, and he did not like the idea of discipleship himself.) At a later time, as we grew out of our youthful maximalism, we came to an understanding of what we call <b>a principle of total-lot aspiration</b>: that it is impossible to be fully formed people of the communist future in the non-communist world, with its economics and psychology, in which we carry inside ourselves a heritage of millenniums of non-communist history not only at the level of culture but also at the level of biology (or genetics). Yet it is possible to <b>aspire</b> to it completely, so it is absolutely wrong in our view when a person speaks or writes as a communist while being a philistine, an adherent of the abysmal patriarchate or an extreme individualist. | From the very beginning we were inspired by the ideas of communism, noosphere and conciliarism. We aimed to grow into the people of a communist world and to create communist interpersonal relations in the spirit of the paleontologist and science fiction writer Ivan Efremov. (We do not consider ourselves to be his disciples, however, and he did not like the idea of discipleship himself.) At a later time, as we grew out of our youthful maximalism, we came to an understanding of what we call <b>a principle of total-lot aspiration</b>: that it is impossible to be fully formed people of the communist future in the non-communist world, with its economics and psychology, in which we carry inside ourselves a heritage of millenniums of non-communist history not only at the level of culture but also at the level of biology (or genetics). Yet it is possible to <b>aspire</b> to it completely, so it is absolutely wrong in our view when a person speaks or writes as a communist while being a philistine, an adherent of the abysmal patriarchate or an extreme individualist. | ||
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* the quality of a “collective person”, a person who realizes their sociality, and who overcomes individualistic stereotypes. This person is capable of collective analysis and action based on their “open doors” to the thoughts, feelings and experiences of others in the group, and on their ability to “let them in” and to act on the basis of this "having the others inside". These collective persons, by this “sharedness”, are mutually responsible for the happiness of one another. | * the quality of a “collective person”, a person who realizes their sociality, and who overcomes individualistic stereotypes. This person is capable of collective analysis and action based on their “open doors” to the thoughts, feelings and experiences of others in the group, and on their ability to “let them in” and to act on the basis of this "having the others inside". These collective persons, by this “sharedness”, are mutually responsible for the happiness of one another. | ||
| − | Today there are not many of us, so we welcome everybody who wishes to join us to act together. We welcome a dialogue with your own ideas as well. Please don’t hesitate to [mailto:n-c-c@inbox.ru email us], or to post a message on [http://krasnaya-zastava.ru/ | + | Today there are not many of us, so we welcome everybody who wishes to join us to act together. We welcome a dialogue with your own ideas as well. Please don’t hesitate to [mailto:n-c-c@inbox.ru email us], or to post a message on [http://krasnaya-zastava.ru/community/viewforum.php?f=75 our forum]. |
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Translation consultant: [http://josephmaslen.googlepages.com/ Joseph Maslen]. | Translation consultant: [http://josephmaslen.googlepages.com/ Joseph Maslen]. | ||