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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 Ivan Efremov’s ideas. (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 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 aspire 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 Ivan Efremov’s ideas. (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 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 aspire 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. | ||
| − | Our union is similar to that in Vera Pavlovna’s workrooms from the famous novel “What Is to Be Done” by Nikolay Chernyshevsky, except that ours is based not on an industrial foundation but on a theoretical and practical one. We discover, examine and translate a subculture of new interpersonal relations | + | Our union is similar to that in Vera Pavlovna’s workrooms from the famous novel “What Is to Be Done” by Nikolay Chernyshevsky, except that ours is based not on an industrial foundation but on a theoretical and practical one. We discover, examine and translate a subculture of new interpersonal relations, because we realize that the state of a society is defined not only by socio-economic conditions but also by the personal qualities of people. And as far as we suppose that the World Community of the future may be described with the phrase “All for one and one for all”, we believe that we should develop this ethos within our small community. |
This way of our life is brought about when each of your pictures, ideas or articles, your archeological explorations and your conversations with another person in the street, your sessions at the gym and your visits to the library, becomes a common deed. It is brought about when all of our children without exception can see not only their thoughtful parents (that is a normal situation), but a community of the people in which a daughter or a son of my friend is my daughter or son. It is brought about when <b>the common deed</b> becomes apparent through our particular deeds. | This way of our life is brought about when each of your pictures, ideas or articles, your archeological explorations and your conversations with another person in the street, your sessions at the gym and your visits to the library, becomes a common deed. It is brought about when all of our children without exception can see not only their thoughtful parents (that is a normal situation), but a community of the people in which a daughter or a son of my friend is my daughter or son. It is brought about when <b>the common deed</b> becomes apparent through our particular deeds. | ||
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| − | There are now more than two dozen of us, living in several cities. Many people joined the NCC builders’ community not long ago. The diversity of our initial circumstances has made it vital to have a <b>“School”</b> that each of us undergoes. At the School, everyone has to overcome everything that interferes with the common deed and prevents them from breaking with the person of present to become the person of future. The School aims at three basic qualities that are necessary to build NCC (and, we are convinced, are peculiar to the complete person of the future): | + | There are now more than two dozen of us, living in several cities. Many people joined the NCC builders’ community not long ago (NCC = Noosphere Communist Culture). The diversity of our initial circumstances has made it vital to have a <b>“School”</b> that each of us undergoes. At the School, everyone has to overcome everything that interferes with the common deed and prevents them from breaking with the person of present to become the person of future. The School aims at three basic qualities that are necessary to build NCC (and, we are convinced, are peculiar to the complete person of the future): |
* the quality of an “uneasy heart” in the present unsettled world. This is associated with the understanding that people live wrongly, that they should not live as they live now, that “in each of the child the Mozart is murdered”. It is a feeling of anguish, in which it is impossible to forget about the “milliards of clear-flashing eyes that look at the world and do not know about the evil and sorrow that fill it”, about senseless existence, either in poverty or in the satiety of consumerism. This understanding must not only be a part of a world-view but also lie in the basis of a person’s motivation and define their real behavior. | * the quality of an “uneasy heart” in the present unsettled world. This is associated with the understanding that people live wrongly, that they should not live as they live now, that “in each of the child the Mozart is murdered”. It is a feeling of anguish, in which it is impossible to forget about the “milliards of clear-flashing eyes that look at the world and do not know about the evil and sorrow that fill it”, about senseless existence, either in poverty or in the satiety of consumerism. This understanding must not only be a part of a world-view but also lie in the basis of a person’s motivation and define their real behavior. | ||