Mikhail Vasilyevich Popov

Mikhail Vasilyevich Popov (Михаил Васильевич Попов; born 24 February 1945 in Tambov Oblast) is a Soviet Russian scientist in the fields of philosophy and economy. Doktor Nauk in Philosophical Sciences (1989), Professor at the Saint Petersburg State University, Member of the Petrovskaya Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is a popularizer of Marxism and socialism.

He was a Komsomol member. Lived in Leningrad (since 1946). He graduated with honors from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Saint Petersburg State University in 1968.

He received the Candidate's degree in 1971.

In 1987, he defended his doctoral dissertation. In 1995, he received the title of Professor.

From 1971 he worked at the Saint Petersburg State University.

Popov is the author of 9 monographs and more than 300 works.

Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1967. He was assistant to Oleg Shein.

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In March 2022, Popov supported Russian invasion of Ukraine and published a video appealing to "the Ukrainian working class".

Since the 2000s, Mikhail Popov has supported the restoration of Russian SFSR and of the USSR,and he has also stated about the need of a Second October Revolution for make Socialism great again, and the "Great Trial Against Capitalism" in order to end capitalism. And since the start of the war on Gaza, Popov has advocated for a "NATO People's Revolt" and has appealed to the "North Atlantic Working Class" and to the "Western Working Class" for rebel and revolt against their governments and states because of the "genocide on Gaza".

Mikhail Popov has also opposed Liberal Democracy considering it a form of "Liberal Authoritarianism" and "Liberal Totalitarianism" and a way to legitimate and justify the Dictatorship of the Capital and the Dictatorship of the Market.