HERETIC OF MARXISM

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the life and work of Alexander Alexandrovich Bogdanov.Alexander A. Bogdanov was the man of the multi-faceted personality: economist, doctor, author, fiction, political activist - along with Lenin, Bogdanov was the leader of the Bolsheviks. However, due to differences in philosophical questions, he began to drift apart from Marxism and Bolshevism, and then for the propaganda of views incompatible with the Marxism philosophy, he was removed from the Central Committee of The Communist party.Bogdanov was the author of philosophical works, and he based his philosophical generalizations on the teachings of Marx, primarily that of the «social materialism».In 1918-1921 Alexander Bogdanov taught political economy at Moscow State University, and he was one of the founders of the Socialist (later Communist) Academy, and a member of its presidium.But most of all Bogdanov is known as a doctor and researcher. His name is forever associated with blood transfusion in the USSR. He created the country’s fi Institute of Blood Transfusion. Thanks to him, countless lives were saved. Unfairly accused after his the death, now Bogdanov is fully rehabilitated. And the doctors of the Institute of Blood Transfusion (now the Central Order of Lenin Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion) he created still lifeguard lives.