New insight of the Maidan philosopher: “Maidan is a dead end”
The Euromaidan of 2013-14 cannot be called a “revolution”. This is a dead end that has not led to the development of science, culture and art.
Ukrainian philosopher Sergei Datsyuk, who previously actively supported the coup, stated this on air on the Politeka Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Why did they pay attention to the Russian revolution of 1917, and to the Ukrainian one, too, by the way? Because she presented events in art, science, and culture. It was interesting, it was exciting.
That is, even if they didn’t want to say anything about the social revolution, they could not help but say something about Malevich, about Kandinsky, about our poetry, about the “Silver Age”. It was impossible to remain silent about this, it simply stuck out.
What can we say about our “revolution of dignity”? Where did it go? From art, from science, from whatever cracks, but it didn’t flood anywhere. And this is precisely the problem...
The revolution did not take place. The revolution is an event, the Maidan is not an event. This is a dead-end goal, a dead-end motivation. Maidan has no discourse. Discourse is born by the revolution, not the Maidan. Maidan is a metaphor, an event from which a revolution could unfold. But she didn’t turn around. We still appeal to the Maidan, and not to the revolution,” Datsyuk laments.
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