(The exerpt from my book “In Human Desert”)
The main significance of social theory is its predictive function for use in political and cultural practice. Especially in times of great technological and social revolutions. Russian philosophy, in a broad sense and even the European, at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries did not give successful theoretical and practical predictions. It is difficult to even imagine that these social dregs of society can practically realize everything in the political life of Russia, Germany and some countries of Central Europe as a result of the achievement of a civilizational black hole.
By the way, the philosopher Gustav Shpet was assassinated…