As particularidades epistemológicas e táticas que distinguem o marxismo ortodoxo soviético das diversas vertentes do marxismo ocidental foram objetos de inúmeros debates, tanto entre acadêmicos quanto no interior de movimentos políticos e sociais. No contrapelo dessa tendência que privilegia as diferenças, Zenovia Sochor apresenta nesse artigo possíveis pontos de contato entre tais tradições, através das obras de dois de seus principais expoentes: Antonio Gramsci, um dos mais importantes pensadores do marxismo ocidental; e Aleksandr Bogdánov, importante líder da fração bolchevique nos anos primevos do POSDR. Utilizando-se das posições de Lenin como referencial comparativo, Sochor apresenta as ideias de Bogdánov e Gramsci acerca das condições necessárias para a revolução a partir de três aspectos do problema: (1) o papel dos intelectuais; (2) as organizações propostas para o trabalho cultural-educacional; e em um nível mais amplo, (3) a relação entre mudança cultural e transição para o socialismo.
"In this first full-length biography of Alexander Bogdanov, James D. White traces the intellectual development of this key socialist thinker, situating his ideas in the context of the Russian revolutionary movement. He examines the part Bogdanov played in the origins of Bolshevism, his role in the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and his conflict with Lenin, which lasted into Soviet times. The book examines in some detail Bogdanov's intellectual legacy, which, though deliberately obscured and distorted by his adversaries, was considerable and is of lasting significance. Bogdanov was an original and influential interpreter of Marx. He had a mastery of many spheres of knowledge, this expertise being employed in writing his chief theoretical work Tectology, which anticipates modern systems theory"--
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: INTRODUCTION -- 1 The Rehabilitation of Bogdanov -- 2 Bogdanov as Scientist and Utopian -- 3 Collection of the Central Party Archive -- Part II: PUBLISHED WORKS AND ARCHIVAL HOLDINGS -- System of Classification -- Works 1892-1929 -- Undated Materials -- Political Cartoons -- New Editions 1989-1998 -- Works in Translation -- Part III: APPENDICES -- Bogdanov: A Biographical Chronicle -- Aliases and Pseudonyms -- Archives, Libraries, Sources
"Empiriomonism is Alexander Bogdanov's monistic philosophy of being and cognition, which he believed is consistent with both modern science and Marxism. In Books One and Two of Empiriomonism, Bogdanov begins with Ernst Mach's and Richard Avenarius's neutral monism - the idea that the 'physical' and the 'psychical' are two sides of one reality - and explains how human psyches are causally interconnected with the rest of nature. In Book Three, he shows how empiriomonism substantiates the principles of historical materialism more adequately than G.V. Plekhanov's out-dated materialism. Bogdanov concludes that empiriomonism, although not technically materialist, is nevertheless of the same order as materialist systems and, since it is the ideology of the productive forces of society, it is a Marxist philosophy"--
Introduction. Ordering the space and time elements in Welsh independent clause, when the subject is formed from a noun, is accompanied by a rather specific agreement of these elements in number. In the grammars of Welsh one can find various classifications of noninverse and inverse sentences and, mostly, practical notions concerning the peculiarities of the agreement of the main parts. Theoretical explanations are meanwhile quite poor. Because it can be proposed, that the peculiarities of sentence organization in Welsh could influence the syntax of English – the language of international communication, the theme under discussion is rather topical.Methodology and sources. The investigation is carried out on the base of four Welsh grammars, containing large chapters on syntax. We also used a collection of texts, from which the examples of non-inverse and inverse sentences were taken. The methodological base of the work is the binomiality idea.Results and discussion. In non-inverse Welsh sentences, the predicate agrees with the subject in number only in case the subject is formed from a pronoun; in case the subject is formed from a noun, the 3-rd person singular is always used. In mixed and abnormal sentences, the word order becomes inverse. The investigation of explicit elements of subject and predicate has turned to be not sufficient, and we were forced to apply the hypothesis on implicitness, inexplicitness and ellipsis of some elements. In doing so, we managed to match the analytic tense in Welsh with the continuous tense in English. It was also suggested, that (emphatic) Welsh constructions can influence the structure of English sentence.Conclusion. In Welsh independent clauses, the weak space specifier can be modified by an implicit strong pronominal semifinitive, after what an implicit element in function of the space element reveals in the subject. Developing the hypothesis about the possible inexplicitness of fixed semifinitives in the Welsh subject, we can also assume that abnormal and mixed sentences in Welsh originate from the subordinate clause of a complex sentence. Within the framework of the general model, it turns out that the arrangement of space and time elements does not contradict the Indo-European system, which fully manifests itself in the English sentence.
AbstractReading Bogdanov today can surprise us with the relevance of his work, the coincidence of some of his ideas with contemporary thought and the productivity of his approaches. Systems thinking, with its capacity to engage with diverse areas, including science and philosophy, is an appropriate avenue for approaching some of our present global problems. I attempt in this article to highlight key ideas and observations from Bogdanov along a line demarcated by some critical thinkers including G. K Chesterton and S. Žižek. This dialogue can illuminate useful paths in our times of crisis: I highlight some commonalities in the organisational tendency urgently suggested by our circumstances and proposed in different manners; I then propose to rekindle the idea of scientific organisation of experience and the formulation of some questions around our dynamic equilibrium/disequilibrium with nature, by using Tektology concepts. Lastly I pose the case for systematically studying human excess.
