"When creative people cease to appear, revolution is inevitable."
The concept of A. Camus is interesting, in which the individual occupies an important place. It goes beyond the traditional interpretation of the clash of "antagonistic contradictions." In his opinion, society constantly lives in a state of reaction, and therefore is regularly threatened by revolutions. Revolutions are halted by creative individuals who triumph over the spirit of reaction. Consequently, "when creative people cease to appear, revolution is inevitable."
In the history of society, there are undoubtedly moments when the possibilities for development narrow to such an extent that society and the masses cannot pass through this corridor without an individual capable of making a choice between two possibilities. Moreover, a personal choice can sharply influence the course of the historical process. Charles de Gaulle was right when he said: "Fortune and courage have changed the course of events more than once. History does not teach you fatalism — remember its lesson. There are hours when the will of a few people breaks what is causally conditioned and inevitable, opening new paths. If you feel all the evil of what is happening and fear the worst, you will be told: 'Such are the laws of history. This is required by the process of development.' And everything will be scientifically explained to you. Do not succumb to this scientifically justified cowardice, gentlemen. It is not just foolishness; it is a crime against reason." Many discuss and write "about the role of personality in history." Here, it is not just a person that is meant, but an outstanding individual distinguished by their abilities and sharply differing from their surroundings. "It is precisely intelligence and abilities that make a person an outstanding personality, acquiring, due to their capabilities, a natural right to leadership." Paradoxically, it is precisely against this that Marxist doctrine, represented in history by such authoritarian figures as Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao Zedong, and others, resolutely opposed.
The most important property of a person is the ability to ask themselves the question — why do they live? The nature of the answer depends on the facts of their psychological life.
It is true that "as long as a person lives, they always retain undisclosed and unrealized possibilities." This is the charge of meaning and the internal spring of human life. The personal abilities of people are realized in specific social conditions. In general, it can be confidently stated that any small country, for example, with a population of four million, that manages to realize at least 10% of its potential geniuses over half a century will far surpass a country many times larger in population that has not realized these possibilities. As can be seen from the above, the necessity of studying the individual has long been recognized. Moreover, philosophy has come to it not as an externally imposed point of view, but as a historical necessity, as something without which one can no longer live. I. A. Aksenov was right in believing that the human personality is incomparable to anything, but itself is the measure of everything, and the will of this personality knows no bounds except for death, which is the end of its activity. This is worth pondering, for even in Shakespeare's time, it was understood that the scale of a person is equal to the scale of their possibilities.
The Importance of Personality for the History of Kyrgyzstan in the 1920s