But before redounding around the obvious Country Email List international pressures that contributed to drowning the USSR, Chukhrov prefers to investigate what is the internal impediment of communism that makes its materialization so difficult. Given the ease shown by the Country Email List capitalist consumer society to alienate and practically vaccinate considerable Country Email List sectors of the world's population against communism, the question raised by this author.
Resonates: «What makes communism unbearable?». The answer Country Email List concerns the difficult transformation involved in making the leap to a non-libidinal economy. Chukhrov's reflection starts from the recognition of an immanent difficulty in communism. She argues that Western liberal and leftist theories, including those that are assumed to be Marxist, they share an idea of social emancipation that places any emancipatory project within the comfortable bubble provided by the society of consumption and abundance, offered from the seductive side of capitalism (covering the terrible side Country Email List of the exploitation of the majority). That Western idea of emancipation assumes that the individual will free himself from the alienations of capitalism while preserving the forward flight of production, technology, and progress with all their cool and fantastic seductions. Obviously, those who theorize Country Email List in this way do so from the living conditions of the intellectual elite, and it is natural that they do so. For this reason, postmodern, poststructuralist, accelerationist, posthegemonic, Lacanian theorists, etc.
Do not reach, according to the Russian philosopher, Chukhrov Country Email List bases his own critical vision of Western emancipatory theory on a radical rereading of the Soviet experience that goes beyond the barriers imposed by the moralistic critique of Stalinism. It is his way of saying that Soviet socialism cannot be dismissed and reduced to the hackneyed topics of liberal anti-totalitarian Country Email List criticism, since it meant much more than the one-sided image of apocalyptic terror constructed by that critical tradition. He explicitly states that his perspective as a student of the living conditions Country Email List of historical communism as it materialized in his country offers him an advantage over the.