I’m about a quarter of the way through The Dispossessed, and I’m pretty disappointed so far. It seems like a flat character expounding on the virtues of Anarcho-syndicalism, but I just have a hard time believing it.
It honestly reminds me of Atlas Shrugged. It’s this ideal world where an idealist system works, and it’s hard to make it believable.
Maybe I’m just a hater. I guess I shouldn’t have an opinion until I finish it.
Wh-what happened to his face?
But yeah this guy and his bro would surely be one of the aristocratic-bourgeois parasites on the soviet science. Or more likely, just fucked off to the west with the rest of the guys.
Also about the Bogdanov in question, remember the famous photo of Lenin having a gamer moment playing chess on Capri with Gorky in the background? Alexander Bogdanov is the guy with whom he was playing.
Actually he did had some significant role here and now for the bolsheviks and was never ultimately purged despite being admonished several times and even arrested once. His mistake was his bourgeoise scholar ambition, he tried to make his own philosophical system “empiriomonism”, but it was just regurgitation of machism into marxism and russian conditions and ultimately just a bastardisation of dialectical materialism, and he was dunked out heavily by Lenin for that. Unfortunately, he was pretty good at presenting that so he had many followers and at grown into one of the most significant crisis in the party around 1909.
Was empiriomonism what Lenin was responding to with Materialsm and Empiriocriticism?
Exactly, Bogdanov was the main guy on the recieving end of that absolute burn.