HISTORY AND REALITY:
STUDIES OF THEORY AND PRACTICE
Studies of International
Logical-Historical School
The authors of the works, published in this book, are
the young scientists, mostly graduates of
Moscow University named by M.V.Lomonosov.
All authors are the pupils of professor V.A.Vazyulin and try to be his followers. Prof. V.A.Vazyulin is
a well known specialist in the field
of methodology and history of marxist-leninist philosophy, the
researcher of logic of "Capital" by K.Marx, the author of the
approach to the research of the society submitting it as an organic whole. This
approach is expounded in his monograph "The Logic of History". The
name of the research school, represented one way or another by the authors of the book, is connected with the name of this the most important for today work of the soviet
scientist.
The book will be interesting to
all progressive minded people, who are
interested in social-political ideas development. The followers of marxism must
be interested in creative approach to K.Marx and F.Engels doctrine. The opponents of marxism denying that marxism is a science
may understand what marxism as a science means. Some materials will be useful for the participants of left-wing and communist
movement. Our main readers are young
people with a bright mind and fiery
heart. Both those who are solving their outlook problems and those who have decided to study social theory to alter
the world.
This book is a collection of
articles, gained with one main need - to comprehend the past in connection with the
present. As G.Hegel says the only lesson the
history gives is that nobody learns lessons from it. Nevertheless the authors
hope that the mankined has become mature enough
to learn from it's own past.
The authors study the history of
formation of capitalism, the history of political economy of socialism, history
of social philosophy, crisis of soviet marxism, summarize the theoretical achievements of a concept of V.A.Vazyulin, analyze the crisis
of communist movement.
The book begins with the
interview with prof. V.A.Vazyulin taken in spring 1994 by a correspondent of Greek left
magazine. The interview touches a set of important problems. First of all there
is the problem of underestimation
of theoretical researches and theory by communist and pro-communist parties and movements. This
doesn't allow to comprehend the modem epoch and
leads these parties to a deadlock. The
stages of bourgeois counterrevolution in the USSR are revealed in the interview, the modem political forces are
characterized. The characteristic of a place and role of the
bureaucracy in practice of the socialist
society and in soviet state decay is of certain interest.
In the article of A.Harlamenko and
E.Harlamenko an attempt is made to show the becoming of capitalism as a world
system. One who will reads this
article will never imagine history as a mechanical unit of histories of
separate countries and regions. Wide concrete historical material illustrates these mutual connections
between nations which were paid
little attention to.
From historical science the reader passes to the
history of social philosophy. G.Dobkin
gives the interpretation of the views development of soviet social scientists to the history of a
society, which is based on the books
published in 50-80 years. The modification of the approaches to the society
research from materialistic conception of history to understanding of a society as an organic whole is
analyzed.
The researches on political
economy of socialism becoming continue the analysis of science. For the first time the stated in "The
Logic of History" is applied by M.Dafermos to the concrete material
political economy of socialism. The stages
of the foundation of this science are picked
out. The connection between these stages and the stages of soviet society development is traced.
S.Rudakov speaking about the
crisis of soviet marxism as a form of social
consciousness reveals the main problem - the problem of a method. Premarxist
comprehension of K.Marx was typical for many soviet
social scientists. The long way to K.Marx was not overcome by soviet marxism in general.
At the same time a mature
comprehension of K.Marx have existed already in the USSR. Three Greek authors
try to expound exactly in a concentrated form the system of views of V.A.Vazyulin fixing some
results of marxism development. This
interpretation, according to the authors idea, should confirm their thesis
about a necessity of a new approach to the
strategy and tactic of revolutional research. The development of social theory is necessary to
overcome the crisis of world communist
movement.
The article of M.Maximov is devoted
to the problem of crisis of communist movement in former USSR. The main
question is the difference between the epoch
of counter-revolution and the epoch of revolution,
which is misunderstood by many left-wing parties. The main practical task of the epoch is the development of
marxism and creation of conditions for such development. First of all it means
the creation of international
theoretical social political magazine of creative marxism.
Introduction
of editors and collectors of the
book.......................
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......... 4
"To
comprehend the modem epoch..." Interview with prof.
V.A.Vazyulin................................
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................ 6
A. V.Harlamenko, E.N.Harlamenko On becoming capitalism as a world system
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..................... 30
Post-face of the book collectors Comments about the method of research of capitalism formation
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................ 63
G.S.Dobkin Methodological problems of the reflection of the
society as a whole in soviet literature of 50-80
years.............
.........70
M.Daphermos Political economy of socialism: History and
reality....................
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91
S.I.Rudakov Crisis of soviet marxism and ways of getting out of
it.......
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....................................... 119
Post-face of the book
collectors. A few remarks
about soviet marxism
and
socialism............................................. 140
M.Daphermos, P.Pavlidis, D.Patelis Bourgeois counterrevolution and some results of marxism
development (To the
problem of strategy and tactic of
revolutionary research)...........
........................ 144
M. V.Maximov How to be? About a crisis of communist movement
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...................... 208
Dear comrades. Our fragile and
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support. We belong to very few if not the only group, setting an aim of social
theory and scientific outlook development. It is not a problem for a single person or a group of like-minded persons. It is a cause of progressive
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Our nearest plans are to publish
a new book of V.A.Vazyulin devoted to the analysis of successes and defeats of the USSR from a position
of creative marxism. It means that
- objective laws of the history of becoming,
development and downfall of the soviet
society in the USSR are brought out in the inner unity with the
subjective factor, but under the leading role of the objective laws. The history is regarded as a natural-historic process;
- the contradictoriness of this
process is analyzed (from the position of the unity of internal and external
contradictories);
- the analysis is fulfilled in
the connection with the theory of socialism, i.e. the problems is analyzed what socialism is,
different necessary forms of socialist society and the necessary conditions of their beginning and
existence are
considered, the differences between early and late socialist revolutions, and
early and late socialism are introduced and based.
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