Mikhail Vasilyevich Popov (; born 24 February 1945 in

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) is a Soviet Russian scientist in the fields of philosophy and economy.

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in Philosophical Sciences (1989), Professor at the

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, Member of the Petrovskaya Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is a popularizer of Marxism and socialism. He is the leader and ideologist of the Workers' Party of Russia. Lived in

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(since 1946). He graduated with honors as a mathematician from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Saint Petersburg State University in 1968. During his student years, he was engaged in

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. He was a

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member. He received the

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's degree in 1971. In 1987, he defended his doctoral dissertation. In 1995, he received the title of Professor. From 1971 he worked at the Saint Petersburg State University.

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was his student. Popov is the author of 9 monographs and more than 300 works. Member of the

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since 1967. He was a member of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was a candidate for People's Deputies of the USSR. In the

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, Mikhail Popov was a trusted representative of

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. Popov was assistant to

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. He is a

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award winner (1981).

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In March 2022, Popov supported

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and published a video appealing to "the Ukrainian working class". Since the 2000s, Mikhail Popov has supported the restoration of Russian SFSR and of the USSR, and he has also stated about the need of a Second October Revolution for make Socialism great again, and the "Great Trial Against Capitalism" in order to end capitalism. And since the start of the war on Gaza, Popov has advocated for a "NATO People's Revolt" and has appealed to the "North Atlantic Working Class" and to the "Western Working Class" for rebel and revolt against their governments and states because of the "genocide on Gaza". Mikhail Popov has also opposed

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considering it a form of "Liberal Authoritarianism" and "Liberal Totalitarianism" and a way to legitimate and justify the Dictatorship of the Capital and the Dictatorship of the Market.

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* Демократический централизм – основной принцип управления социалистической экономикой. Лениздат. 1975 – 174 стр.
Ленинизм как современный марксизм

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