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1920s Gnosticism and collective communist human nature

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Early Soviet thinkers (even Trotsky) entertained the idea that communism would change human nature and introduce a new collective entity; today this returns in the New Age 'singularity' myth of minds merged into a collective digital consciousness.

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“communism should change the human nature and introduce a new collective entity of humanity... today this is returning with... singularity”
“this radical sect developed this radical but very influential their idea was in the twenties that now that we communists have power... the last resistance of bourgeois morality is sexuality and we have to overcome it”
7:45 Hegel in a Wired Brain2020-07-28 · 38:30
“The idea was that the main task of the October Revolution should be... to produce a new man... a man who is clearly described as beyond sexuality.”
1:14:45 The Metaphysics of Love2015-11-25 · 1:46:18

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Early Soviet thinkers (even Trotsky) entertained the idea that communism would change human nature and introduce a new collective entity; today this returns in the New Age 'singularity' myth of minds merged into a collective digital consciousness., illustrating wired brain / Neuralink,technology,communism
7:45 Hegel in a Wired Brain2020-07-28 · 38:30
A radical Soviet sect in the 1920s anticipated singularity-style collective consciousness and concluded that communism must abolish sexuality as the last bastion of bourgeois morality, showing the historical precedent for singularity theology., illustrating Bolshevik Gnosticism,singularity,eroticization of failure
1:14:45 The Metaphysics of Love2015-11-25 · 1:46:18
Early Soviet ideologues (especially Andrei Platonov) imagined the October Revolution's goal as producing a new human being beyond sexuality, relating to the body like a measuring apparatus reading a steam engine. In Platonov's Stalinist-period works sex returns as authentic existence., illustrating alienation,communism and sexuality,Zamyatin's 'We'