Interesting that the first German translation of Bogdanov’s Red Star – from 1923 – was published as the first volume of the new series of books for young people (Internationale Jugendbücherei). It can be found here (online version). UPDATE: A kind reader pointed out that this translation is also found here – in a ‘regular’ […]
UPDATE: A paperback edition is now available at Haymarket Books for only $55 – see here. We are excited to announce that the Volume One of the series is out now. Thus far we have four volumes out – from projected ten (or more) – so not exactly half-way done but getting close. The next […]
Forthcoming in Historical Materialism but you can see an advance copy here: Abstract Alexander Bogdanov made three assertions regarding his adoption of Marxism: that the economic textbooks he first used had nothing in common with Marxism, that his worker-students prompted him toward Marxism, and that a work by Lenin was the decisive influence in that […]
An episode not mentioned – as far as I can tell – in James D. White’s biography (Red Hamlet: The Life and Ideas of Alexander Bogdanov) but of interest to those who might care. This is by no means new information (see, for example, this essay about Bogdanov’s time in Vologda) but since I was […]
Bogdanov’s two early theoretical works (and one later book) are scheduled to appear in Volume 1 of Bogdanov Library early next year (2025). The volume’s overall title will be – Toward the Scientific Defence of Historical Materialism – and it will include: Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature (1899) Cognition from the Historical […]
Rowley, David G. The dual meaning of ‘empiriomonism’ in the work of Alexander Bogdanov. Studies in East European Thought (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-024-09628-3 Abstract In Alexander Bogdanov’s work, the term ‘empiriomonism’ is used in two ways: broadly to signify his general worldview (a monist, naturalist, determinist, scientific outlook) and narrowly to refer to the philosophy of cognition and being […]
Estrella Roja és una fantàstica novel·la sobre la creació d’una societat socialista a Mart. El viatge interplanetari d’un científic revolucionari que s’enamorarà d’una societat que batalla entre la utopia i els seus desafiaments. Una intrigant història plena d’enginys futuristes però també de reflexions sobre els reptes i els perills dels avenços tecnològics, el combustible radioactiu, […]
A new book that came out in December of last year but it is worth mentioning here (also because I just got around to reading it). It’s in Marx, Engels, and Marxisms series over at Palgrave Macmillan (and if it is too a bit on the expensive side for a personal purchase, you can ask […]
Thanks to Moritz Beitelschmidt we’ve been able to find (and make available here) the second volume of Bogdanov’s Tektology translated into German (Volume 1 in 1926, Volume 2 in 1928). A. Bogdanow, Allgemeine Organisationslehre: Tektologie – Band 1 (1926) A. Bogdanow, Allgemeine Organisationslehre: Tektologie – Band 2 (1928)
I wanted to bring to your attention two new Bogdanov-related texts by John Biggart that can be found on his Academia page here. Спорное дело о долге Анне Ивановне Умновой. Эпизод из финансовой истории большевиков (1907-1910) Aleksandr Bogdanov’s ‘From philosophy to the science of organization’ (1921-1924)
