Victor Alekseyevich Vaziulin (; 30 August 1932 – 8 January 2012) was a

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

and Russian philosopher. He became famous for his deep knowledge of

Karl Marx Karl Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best-known for the 1848 pamphlet '' The Communist Manifesto'' (written with Friedrich Engels) ...

's work as well as for further developing

Marxism Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. It uses a dialectical and materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to analyse class relations, social conflict, ...

through the

dialectical Dialectic (; ), also known as the dialectical method, refers originally to dialogue between people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to arrive at the truth through reasoned argument. Dialectic resembles debate, but the c ...

sublation () or () is a German word with several seemingly contradictory meanings, including "to lift up", "to abolish", "cancel" or "suspend", or "to sublate". The term has also been defined as "abolish", "preserve", and "transcend". In philosophy, is ...

of its acquis. He is the founder of the International Logical-Historical School.

Biography

V. A. Vaziulin was born near

Zvenigorod Zvenigorod () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in the Moscow Oblast of western Russia. In 2010 it had a population of about 16,000. History The town's name is based either on a personal name (cf. Zvenislav, Zvenimir) or on a ...

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on 30 August 1932 and studied

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

Lomonosov University Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, and six branches. Al ...

(1950–55), defended his PhD thesis at 1964 and his postdoctoral thesis at 1971. In 1964, he became a professor at

, where he taught until his retirement. He also taught at the universities of

Bratislava Bratislava (German: ''Pressburg'', Hungarian: ''Pozsony'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Slovakia, Slovak Republic and the fourth largest of all List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. ...

and

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. He died in Moscow on 8 January 2012.

Work

V. A. Vaziulin proposed a distinct direction in social

theory A theory is a systematic and rational form of abstract thinking about a phenomenon, or the conclusions derived from such thinking. It involves contemplative and logical reasoning, often supported by processes such as observation, experimentation, ...

dialectic Dialectic (; ), also known as the dialectical method, refers originally to dialogue between people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to arrive at the truth through reasoned argument. Dialectic resembles debate, but the ...

logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the study of deductively valid inferences or logical truths. It examines how conclusions follow from premises based on the structure o ...

and

science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

methodology In its most common sense, methodology is the study of research methods. However, the term can also refer to the methods themselves or to the philosophical discussion of associated background assumptions. A method is a structured procedure for bri ...

. The main scientific achievements of V. A. Vaziulin include: * Revealing the logic of

's '' Capital: Critique of Political Economy'' theory by a systematic, categorical, comparative evaluation of the ''Capital's'' politico-economic material alongside a parallel, critical analysis of

Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a 19th-century German idealism, German idealist. His influence extends across a wide range of topics from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political phi ...

’s '' The Science of Logic''. This comparative cross-examination enabled him to explore the methodology of the advanced scientific research, of the mature science as an ''

organic Organic may refer to: * Organic, of or relating to an organism, a living entity * Organic, of or relating to an anatomical organ Chemistry * Organic matter, matter that has come from a once-living organism, is capable of decay or is the product ...

whole''. Within the framework of this logic and methodology are revealed- in "pure form"- i) the ''ascent from the abstract to the concrete '' in its dialectical

unity Unity is the state of being as one (either literally or figuratively). It may also refer to: Buildings * Unity Building, Oregon, Illinois, US; a historic building * Unity Building (Chicago), Illinois, US; a skyscraper * Unity Buildings, Liverpoo ...

with the ''ascent from the sensual-concrete to the abstract'', ii) the ''logical'' in its unity with the ''historical'' and, iii) the reasonable aspect of thinking (German: ''Vernunft'') in unity with the intellectual (germ. ''Verstand''). * A concrete-historical approach of

as a scientific system that is developed through the

emergence In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its parts do not have on their own, and emerge only when they interact in a wider whole. Emergence plays a central rol ...

and resolution of necessary

contradiction In traditional logic, a contradiction involves a proposition conflicting either with itself or established fact. It is often used as a tool to detect disingenuous beliefs and bias. Illustrating a general tendency in applied logic, Aristotle's ...

s. For Vaziulin, Marxism is a scientific system that consists of internally united, in their differences, components, each of which is at a certain level of its formation and development. This

al and

methodological In its most common sense, methodology is the study of research methods. However, the term can also refer to the methods themselves or to the philosophical discussion of associated background assumptions. A method is a structured procedure for bri ...

analysis of the history of Marxism paved the way for i) the discovery of the

objective Objective may refer to: * Objectivity, the quality of being confirmed independently of a mind. * Objective (optics), an element in a camera or microscope * ''The Objective'', a 2008 science fiction horror film * Objective pronoun, a personal pron ...

laws and

s (including the necessary

fallacies A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument that may appear to be well-reasoned if unnoticed. The term was introduced in the Western intellectual tradition by the Aristotelian '' De Sophis ...

) of the ''beginning'', the ''emergence'', the ''formation'', and the ''maturity'' of the development of scientific

research Research is creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge. It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to ...

, i.e. the movement of cognitive thinking from the surface to the essence of the object (of the subject matter) and, ii) the development of the most promising components of Marxism. * Revealing the inner, systematic interconnection of laws and categories of social theory which reflect the structure of the mature society and outlined the theoretical

periodization In historiography, periodization is the process or study of categorizing the past into discrete, quantified, and named blocks of time for the purpose of study or analysis.Adam Rabinowitz.It's about time: historical periodization and Linked Ancie ...

of human history (the objective laws of its "ascent" from the ''beginning'', the ''emergence'', the ''formation'', to the ''maturity'') from the perspective of the interactions of natural and social factors. The first two achievements are internally connected to the approach of scientific thinking as a natural-historical process.

Bibliography

In Russian
Логика «Капитала» К.Маркса, Москва 1968, 2002

2017 * ttp://www.ilhs.tuc.gr/ru/dialektika.htm Диалектика исторического процесса и методология его исследования, Москва 1978 2007
Логика истории. Вопросы теории и методологии, Москва 1988, 2005, 2016
In German * W.A. Wasjulin: Das Historische und das Logische in der Methodologie von Karl Marx, in: Internationale Marx-Engels-Foruschung (Marxistische Studien. Jahrbuch des IMSF 12), Frankfurt/M 1987, S. 238–244 * V.A. Vazjulin: Nach dem Sieg der Konterrevolution – den welthistorischen Übergang zum Kommunismus denken. Gespräch in Moskau, 1992 geführt von Gudrun Havemann, Wladimir Koschel und Manolis Dafermakis in Moskau, veröff. in Zeitschrift Marxistische Erneuerung – Z. – Nr. 14, Juni 1993

* V.A. Vazjulin: Entwicklung systematisch denken, in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 2005/2, S. 203–218 * V.A. Vazjulin: Die Logik des «Kapitals» von Karl Marx, Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2006 * V.A. Vazjulin: Die Logik der Geschichte, Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2011 In Greek

* ttp://www.ilhs.tuc.gr/gr/li.htm Η λογική της ιστορίας. Εισαγωγή-Μετάφρ.-Σχόλια Δημήτρης Πατέλης. «Ελληνικά γράμματα», Αθ. 2004 2η έκδ. ΚΨΜ, Αθ. 2013.

References

Sources

Moscow State University web-page

Marx's Global Reception Today- Marx in Russia

The Logic of ''Capital'': Some recent analyses

Recent Soviet works on the scientific method of Marx's ''Capital'' and related topics

Marx in Russia

Marx worldwide : on the development of the international discourse on Marx since 1965
* M. Dafermos (2021). Rethinking the relationship between Marx's Capital and Hegel's Science of Logic: The tradition of creative Soviet Marxism. Capital & Class.https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/A6JFYYWI5KKP72TVVYAC/full

External links

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