Александр Бузгалин
Biographic Data
| ID | 4169698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Александр Бузгалин |
| GIVEN NAMES | Александр |
| FAMILY NAME | Бузгалин |
| SIGNATURE | БУЗГАЛИН А |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3923-8385 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Marxism and Soviet Socio-Humanitarian Thought: A View from the 21st Century (“Round Table” Materials)
The article is a transcript of the discussion about the prospects of Marxism as a philosophical and methodological program and a direction of research in the field of social sciences and scientific methodology in general. The participants of the round table held on June 24, 2023 at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University expressed different views on the current state and prospects of the Marxist paradigm, focusing on the role of Marx…
International Perspectives
After the “End of History”: Progressive Alternatives to the Refeudalization and “Techno-Socialism”
The article continues the author's publications in the journal “Sociological Studies”, in which it was shown that contradictions of the neoliberal model of late capitalism pose a threat of the society involution towards conservative liberalism and refeudalization. The new text demonstrates a possibile implementing jf a progressive alternative to this trend and criticizes currently popular idea of "technosocialism". The author argues that the deve…
The End of the “End of History”: A New Wave of Conflict in the World between a Liberalism That Is Becoming Conservative and a Socialism That Is Seeking Renewal
Thirty years ago, Francis Fukuyama in his article “The End of History?” formulated a thesis about the final victory of the neoliberal model of capitalism. But history does not stop. Two hundred years after the birth of Marx, The Economist wrote that the millennial generation chooses socialism, and the experts who prepared the report to the US president described socialism as the main threat. The author shows that the cause of these fears is the c…
Critical Marxism in Post-Soviet Russia
Capital of the 21st Century: From the Proletariat and Bourgeoisie to the Precariat and the Oligarchic-Bureaucratic Nomenklatura
The article presents the research on the social and class structure of modern society from the positions of the Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism. It is shown that late capitalism is characterised by the active formation of inter-class and intra-class layers. The article reveals the contradictions of the 'creative class'. The 'creative class' is divided into (1) the people who are employed in the creatosphere and give rise to the phenomena o…
The Protests in Belarus: Context, Causes and Lessons
This article offers an initial analyses the mass protests that began in Belarus following the presidential elections of August 2020. Written 'in the heat of events' it has the character of preliminary observations. The authors begin with the background and context of events and the outcomes of the economic and social development of the Republic of Belarus during the 25 years of rule by Lukashenko. A preliminary analysis of the social and class ma…
Creating the Impossible: Lenin’s Legacy
The 150th anniversary of the birth of Lenin provides an occasion for rethinking his legacy. Rethinking and employing it is critically to understand and change modern capitalism. The author shows that all his theoretical elaborations and practice make up an integral system of scientific achievements and political acts. Lenin’s elaboration of the development and limits of capitalism, including the contradictions of monopoly capital, allowed him to …
Culture and revolution: Bakhtin, Mayakovsky and Lenin (disalienation as [social] creativity)
The article shows the dialectic of the relationship of revolution and culture as two sides of creativity - social and art. In a dialogue with the philosophy of Mikhail Bakhtin, the authors reveal culture as the removal of alienation (disalienation) in the process of subject-subjective dialogue, in which a qualitatively new reality is created – Truth, Beauty, Good, a new person is born - a man-creator, and as such, culture is revolutionary. The se…
October and the Theory of Communist Revolution: Social Creativity, Culture and Violence
October 1917 changed the world. The twentieth century became the epoch of socialist revolutions and, as the consequence of their victories and defeats (the paradox!), of the radical social reforms. The epoch of non-linear transformations of capitalism towards socialism and, broader, of the “realm of necessity” towards the “realm of freedom” started. And this is a challenge for all of us: for those who are creating socialist practices, and those w…
Ukraine: Who Is to Blame, and What Needs to Be Done
The October Revolution: Practice as the Impulse for the Development of Theory
Critical political economy: The ‘market-centric’ model of economic theory must remain in the past—notes of the Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism
(Translated by Renfrey Clarke) It is argued that a critical redefinition both of classical political economy and of the Marxist approach is required to understand the economy of the twenty-first century. There is also a need to respond to (neo)positivist and post-modernist approaches. The paper offers a critique of the ‘market-centric’ model of economic theory and articulates a theory about the nature of post-market economic relations. It is hypo…
Russia: A New Imperialist Power
The authors employ modern Marxist methodology and theory to analyse imperialism and so-called “empires,” making it possible to reveal the mechanisms through which the capital and states of the countries that make up the “centre” ensure the economic, political and ideological manipulation of the “periphery.” On this basis, it is shown that the capital and state machines of the countries of the semi-periphery in general, and of Russia in particular…
Russia: New Imperialist Power
This paper argues the importance of using modern methodology of Marxist analysis for the study of imperialism and the so-called "empires".This methodology allows to show the mechanisms of economic, political, ideological, and so on manipulating the "periphery" from the "center" capital and the states.On this methodological basis it is proved that capitals and state machines of semi-periphery countries in general and Russia in particular are mostl…
The Oligarch, the State and the Intelligentsia: Khodorkovsky as a Mirror of the Counterpoints of Post-Soviet Russia ∗
Ukraine: Anatomy of a Civil War
This article examines the anatomy of the conflict in and surrounding Ukraine. Employing the dialectical method, the author presents the conflict as a multi-dimensional system of contradictions, with the accent on its socio-economic and class aspects. Also discussed are the prehistory and political and economic bases of the confrontation, as well as possible scenarios of future interrelations
The Anatomy of Twenty-First Century Exploitation: From Traditional Extraction of Surplus Value to Exploitation of Creative Activity
The modern system of exploitation presupposes integration of four historico-logical “layers” of the exploitation of labor by capital: 1) the “classical” system of hired labor and appropriation by capital of surplus value; 2) appropriation of monopoly (super) profits and financial profits; 3) partial social redistribution of a part of surplus value, and “diffusion” of capital; and 4) relations of exploitation that pertain to creative activity and …
Re-actualising Marxism in Russia: The dialectic of transformations and social creativity
This article analyses the differentia specifica (specific difference) of the Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism in the areas of the methodology and philosophy of history and of the socio-political process. Among the main characteristics of the school, the authors stress the importance assigned to the ‘new’ dialectic of the ‘sunset’, genesis and transformation of socio-economic systems. Typical of this process are (1) non-linear evolution (or …
Economic Crisis: Scenarios of Post-Crisis Development
Editor's Note : The authors, Aleksandr Buzgalin and Andrey Kol-ganov, are Professors in the Economics Faculty at Moscow State University, and members of the Internet Institute “Socialism-XXI,” which represents the post-Soviet school of critical Marxism (see Mayer and Küttner, 2008 for details). Buzgalin is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Alternatives . This Communication is presented as part of the continuing discussion occasioned by our spec…
On the Future of Socialism in Russia
It is perhaps no exaggeration to say that the contradictions of humanity's transition from the "realm of necessity" to the "realm of freedom," begun in the twentieth century, assumed their brightest, grandest, most tragic, and at times most farcical forms in our homeland. Technological contrasts (having the first man in space versus half an employed population engaged in manual labor), economic contradictions (examples of the most advanced forms …
Russia: The Rout of the Neo-Liberals
For most analysts, including the authors of this brief study, the Russian parliamentary elections of December 1995 brought few surprises. The success of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (kprf), headed by Gennady Zyuganov, was expected. Analysts had also anticipated that the left-wing—more precisely, social-chauvinist—centre would
The Anatomy of Twenty-First Century Exploitation: From Traditional Extraction of Surplus Value to Exploitation of Creative Activity
The modern system of exploitation presupposes integration of four historico-logical “layers” of the exploitation of labor by capital: 1) the “classical” system of hired labor and appropriation by capital of surplus value; 2) appropriation of monopoly (super) profits and financial profits; 3) partial social redistribution of a part of surplus value, and “diffusion” of capital; and 4) relations of exploitation that pertain to creative activity and …
The Protests in Belarus: Context, Causes and Lessons
This article offers an initial analyses the mass protests that began in Belarus following the presidential elections of August 2020. Written 'in the heat of events' it has the character of preliminary observations. The authors begin with the background and context of events and the outcomes of the economic and social development of the Republic of Belarus during the 25 years of rule by Lukashenko. A preliminary analysis of the social and class ma…
Russia: A New Imperialist Power
The authors employ modern Marxist methodology and theory to analyse imperialism and so-called “empires,” making it possible to reveal the mechanisms through which the capital and states of the countries that make up the “centre” ensure the economic, political and ideological manipulation of the “periphery.” On this basis, it is shown that the capital and state machines of the countries of the semi-periphery in general, and of Russia in particular…
Ukraine: Anatomy of a Civil War
This article examines the anatomy of the conflict in and surrounding Ukraine. Employing the dialectical method, the author presents the conflict as a multi-dimensional system of contradictions, with the accent on its socio-economic and class aspects. Also discussed are the prehistory and political and economic bases of the confrontation, as well as possible scenarios of future interrelations
Culture and revolution: Bakhtin, Mayakovsky and Lenin (disalienation as [social] creativity)
The article shows the dialectic of the relationship of revolution and culture as two sides of creativity - social and art. In a dialogue with the philosophy of Mikhail Bakhtin, the authors reveal culture as the removal of alienation (disalienation) in the process of subject-subjective dialogue, in which a qualitatively new reality is created – Truth, Beauty, Good, a new person is born - a man-creator, and as such, culture is revolutionary. The se…
Economic Crisis: Scenarios of Post-Crisis Development
Editor's Note : The authors, Aleksandr Buzgalin and Andrey Kol-ganov, are Professors in the Economics Faculty at Moscow State University, and members of the Internet Institute “Socialism-XXI,” which represents the post-Soviet school of critical Marxism (see Mayer and Küttner, 2008 for details). Buzgalin is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Alternatives . This Communication is presented as part of the continuing discussion occasioned by our spec…
Russia: The Rout of the Neo-Liberals
For most analysts, including the authors of this brief study, the Russian parliamentary elections of December 1995 brought few surprises. The success of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (kprf), headed by Gennady Zyuganov, was expected. Analysts had also anticipated that the left-wing—more precisely, social-chauvinist—centre would
On the Future of Socialism in Russia
It is perhaps no exaggeration to say that the contradictions of humanity's transition from the "realm of necessity" to the "realm of freedom," begun in the twentieth century, assumed their brightest, grandest, most tragic, and at times most farcical forms in our homeland. Technological contrasts (having the first man in space versus half an employed population engaged in manual labor), economic contradictions (examples of the most advanced forms …
Economic Crisis: Scenarios of Post-Crisis Development
Editor's Note : The authors, Aleksandr Buzgalin and Andrey Kol-ganov, are Professors in the Economics Faculty at Moscow State University, and members of the Internet Institute “Socialism-XXI,” which represents the post-Soviet school of critical Marxism (see Mayer and Küttner, 2008 for details). Buzgalin is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Alternatives . This Communication is presented as part of the continuing discussion occasioned by our spec…
Re-actualising Marxism in Russia: The dialectic of transformations and social creativity
This article analyses the differentia specifica (specific difference) of the Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism in the areas of the methodology and philosophy of history and of the socio-political process. Among the main characteristics of the school, the authors stress the importance assigned to the ‘new’ dialectic of the ‘sunset’, genesis and transformation of socio-economic systems. Typical of this process are (1) non-linear evolution (or …
The Anatomy of Twenty-First Century Exploitation: From Traditional Extraction of Surplus Value to Exploitation of Creative Activity
The modern system of exploitation presupposes integration of four historico-logical “layers” of the exploitation of labor by capital: 1) the “classical” system of hired labor and appropriation by capital of surplus value; 2) appropriation of monopoly (super) profits and financial profits; 3) partial social redistribution of a part of surplus value, and “diffusion” of capital; and 4) relations of exploitation that pertain to creative activity and …
Ukraine: Anatomy of a Civil War
This article examines the anatomy of the conflict in and surrounding Ukraine. Employing the dialectical method, the author presents the conflict as a multi-dimensional system of contradictions, with the accent on its socio-economic and class aspects. Also discussed are the prehistory and political and economic bases of the confrontation, as well as possible scenarios of future interrelations
Critical political economy: The ‘market-centric’ model of economic theory must remain in the past—notes of the Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism
(Translated by Renfrey Clarke) It is argued that a critical redefinition both of classical political economy and of the Marxist approach is required to understand the economy of the twenty-first century. There is also a need to respond to (neo)positivist and post-modernist approaches. The paper offers a critique of the ‘market-centric’ model of economic theory and articulates a theory about the nature of post-market economic relations. It is hypo…
Russia: A New Imperialist Power
The authors employ modern Marxist methodology and theory to analyse imperialism and so-called “empires,” making it possible to reveal the mechanisms through which the capital and states of the countries that make up the “centre” ensure the economic, political and ideological manipulation of the “periphery.” On this basis, it is shown that the capital and state machines of the countries of the semi-periphery in general, and of Russia in particular…
Russia: New Imperialist Power
This paper argues the importance of using modern methodology of Marxist analysis for the study of imperialism and the so-called "empires".This methodology allows to show the mechanisms of economic, political, ideological, and so on manipulating the "periphery" from the "center" capital and the states.On this methodological basis it is proved that capitals and state machines of semi-periphery countries in general and Russia in particular are mostl…
The Oligarch, the State and the Intelligentsia: Khodorkovsky as a Mirror of the Counterpoints of Post-Soviet Russia ∗
October and the Theory of Communist Revolution: Social Creativity, Culture and Violence
October 1917 changed the world. The twentieth century became the epoch of socialist revolutions and, as the consequence of their victories and defeats (the paradox!), of the radical social reforms. The epoch of non-linear transformations of capitalism towards socialism and, broader, of the “realm of necessity” towards the “realm of freedom” started. And this is a challenge for all of us: for those who are creating socialist practices, and those w…
Ukraine: Who Is to Blame, and What Needs to Be Done
The October Revolution: Practice as the Impulse for the Development of Theory
Creating the Impossible: Lenin’s Legacy
The 150th anniversary of the birth of Lenin provides an occasion for rethinking his legacy. Rethinking and employing it is critically to understand and change modern capitalism. The author shows that all his theoretical elaborations and practice make up an integral system of scientific achievements and political acts. Lenin’s elaboration of the development and limits of capitalism, including the contradictions of monopoly capital, allowed him to …
Culture and revolution: Bakhtin, Mayakovsky and Lenin (disalienation as [social] creativity)
The article shows the dialectic of the relationship of revolution and culture as two sides of creativity - social and art. In a dialogue with the philosophy of Mikhail Bakhtin, the authors reveal culture as the removal of alienation (disalienation) in the process of subject-subjective dialogue, in which a qualitatively new reality is created – Truth, Beauty, Good, a new person is born - a man-creator, and as such, culture is revolutionary. The se…
The Protests in Belarus: Context, Causes and Lessons
This article offers an initial analyses the mass protests that began in Belarus following the presidential elections of August 2020. Written 'in the heat of events' it has the character of preliminary observations. The authors begin with the background and context of events and the outcomes of the economic and social development of the Republic of Belarus during the 25 years of rule by Lukashenko. A preliminary analysis of the social and class ma…
The End of the “End of History”: A New Wave of Conflict in the World between a Liberalism That Is Becoming Conservative and a Socialism That Is Seeking Renewal
Thirty years ago, Francis Fukuyama in his article “The End of History?” formulated a thesis about the final victory of the neoliberal model of capitalism. But history does not stop. Two hundred years after the birth of Marx, The Economist wrote that the millennial generation chooses socialism, and the experts who prepared the report to the US president described socialism as the main threat. The author shows that the cause of these fears is the c…
Critical Marxism in Post-Soviet Russia
Capital of the 21st Century: From the Proletariat and Bourgeoisie to the Precariat and the Oligarchic-Bureaucratic Nomenklatura
The article presents the research on the social and class structure of modern society from the positions of the Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism. It is shown that late capitalism is characterised by the active formation of inter-class and intra-class layers. The article reveals the contradictions of the 'creative class'. The 'creative class' is divided into (1) the people who are employed in the creatosphere and give rise to the phenomena o…
After the “End of History”: Progressive Alternatives to the Refeudalization and “Techno-Socialism”
The article continues the author's publications in the journal “Sociological Studies”, in which it was shown that contradictions of the neoliberal model of late capitalism pose a threat of the society involution towards conservative liberalism and refeudalization. The new text demonstrates a possibile implementing jf a progressive alternative to this trend and criticizes currently popular idea of "technosocialism". The author argues that the deve…
Marxism and Soviet Socio-Humanitarian Thought: A View from the 21st Century (“Round Table” Materials)
The article is a transcript of the discussion about the prospects of Marxism as a philosophical and methodological program and a direction of research in the field of social sciences and scientific methodology in general. The participants of the round table held on June 24, 2023 at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University expressed different views on the current state and prospects of the Marxist paradigm, focusing on the role of Marx…
International Perspectives
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