Victor Alekseyevich Vaziulin


Victor Alekseyevich Vaziulin was a Soviet 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.

Biography

V. A. Vaziulin was born in Zvenigorod, Moscow on 30 August 1932 and studied philosophy at Lomonosov University, 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:

  1. Revealed the logic of Karl Marx's "" 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 in unity with the intellectual.
  2. 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 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 the development of the most promising components of Marxism.
  3. 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 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.