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Subject: [NetworkedLabour] How important was Alexander Bogdanov?
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David G. Rowley. Review of Biggart, John; Dudley, Peter; King, Francis,
eds., Alexander Bogdanov and the Origins of Systems inking in Russia and
Biggart, John; Glovelli, Georgii; Yassour, Avraham, Bogdanov and His Work:
A Guide to the Published and Unpublished Works of Alexander A. Bogdanov
(Malinovsky) 1873-1928. H-Russia, H-Net Reviews. May, 2000.

URL: hp://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=4154

Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928) – scientist, philoso- pher, economist,
physician, novelist, poet, and Marxist revolutionary – is mostly ignored by
general histories of Europe and Russia and generally appears only as a
minor character in the more specialized works of Russian phi- losophy and
the Russian Social-Democratic movement. Yet it seems that no one who
becomes familiar with his work fails to be uerly impressed by it. Most
Bogdanov scholars believe him to be one of the most creative and profound
European thinkers of his age.

Bogdanov was an original philosopher who at- tempted to reconstruct Marxism
upon a modern epis- temological footing (replacing Plekhanov’s correspon-
dence theory of knowledge with a sophisticated rein- terpretation of Ernst
Mach’s Empiriocriticism).[1] His conception of the role that culture would
play in build- ing Communism bears a striking resemblance to Anto- nio
Gramsci’s notion of cultural hegemony.[2] Most im- portantly of all,
in his Tektology:
Universal Organization Science, Bogdanov ambitiously proposed that all
physi- cal, biological, and human sciences could be unified by treating
them as systems of relationships and by seeking the organizational
principles that underlie all systems. His work anticipated in many
important ways Norbert Weiner’s Cybernetics and Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s Gen-
eral Systems eory.[3]

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