A Proletarian Encyclopédie
Journal: Academic Studies Press eBooks
Year: 2019

I n the second half of the eighteenth century, the progressive bour- geoisie prepared its great revolution by energetically collecting and organizing its own forces.They conceived wrongly the meaning of ideas within life, but correctly felt their power in organization.That is why a progressive group of ideologues created at that moment the famous Encyclopedia." 1 With these words Alexander Bogdanov, leader of the so-called Left Bolsheviks, introduced his proposal for a new proletarian encycloped