Victor Alekseyevich Vaziulin

Victor Alekseyevich Vaziulin (russian: Виктор Алексеевич Вазюлин; 30 August 1932 – 8 January 2012) was a Soviet and Russian philosopher. He became famous for his deep knowledge of Karl Marx's work as well as for further developing Marxism through the dialectical sublation of its acquis.

Doctor of Sciences in Philosophical Sciences (1973).

Biography

V. A. Vaziulin was born in Zvenigorod, Moscow Oblast on 30 August 1932 and studied philosophy at Lomonosov University (1950–55), defended his PhD thesis at 1964 and his postdoctoral thesis at 1971. At 1964 he became professor at Lomonosov University, where he taught until his retirement. He also taught at the universities of Bratislava and Prague. He died in Moscow on 8 January 2012.

Work

V. A. Vaziulin wrote a novel, distinct direction in social theory, dialectical logic and science methodology. The main scientific achievements of V. A. Vaziulin include:

# Revealed the logic of Karl Marx'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’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 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 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 (germ. ''Vernunft'') in unity with the intellectual (germ. ''Verstand'').
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# A concrete-historical approach of Marxism as a scientific system that is developed through the emergence and resolution of necessary contradictions. 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 logical and methodological analysis of the history of Marxism paved the way for i) the discovery of the objective laws and contradictions (including the necessary fallacies) of the ''beginning'', the ''emergence'', the ''formation'', and the ''maturity'' of the development of scientific research, 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.
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# Revealed the inner, systematic interconnection of laws and categories of social theory which reflect the structure of the mature society and outlined the theoretical periodization 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.
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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

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

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1932 births
2012 deaths
20th-century Russian philosophers
21st-century Russian philosophers
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Marxist theorists
Russian communists
Russian Marxists
Soviet philosophers
Academic staff of Moscow State University
Moscow State University alumni
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