TBF, Torres denies using it to mean this, instead claiming it refers to some obscure 2010 article by Ben Goertzel alone. This doesn’t seem a very credible excuse, and it has been largely understood by proponents of the theory (like Dave Troy or Céline Keller) to mean Russian cosmism (and consequently that “TESCREAL” is actually a plot by Russian intelligence to re-establish the Soviet Union).
TBF it is fairly striking reading about early Soviet history how many of the Old Bolshevik intelligentsia would have fit right in this community but the whole “Putin is a secret cosmist” crowd is… unhinged.
TBF, Torres denies using it to mean this, instead claiming it refers to some obscure 2010 article by Ben Goertzel alone. This doesn’t seem a very credible excuse, and it has been largely understood by proponents of the theory (like Dave Troy or Céline Keller) to mean Russian cosmism (and consequently that “TESCREAL” is actually a plot by Russian intelligence to re-establish the Soviet Union).
That is such a bizarre claim to make but admittedly including Cosmism at all is really odd
TBF it is fairly striking reading about early Soviet history how many of the Old Bolshevik intelligentsia would have fit right in this community but the whole “Putin is a secret cosmist” crowd is… unhinged.