On March 25, 2025, the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences hosted a theoretical seminar entitled "Materialistic Critique of Political Theory"
The seminar was opened with a welcoming speech by the Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chief Researcher of the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Viktor Rudenko as part of the implementation of the scientific project "Creation of a Russian historiographic model of political and legal knowledge and its application to develop promising means of counteracting ideological distortions of the civilizational development of Russia." The report examined the origins of materialistic philosophy, starting with the ideas of Plato and Aristotle, its influence on political theory (primarily in the form of economic materialism and its criticism), showed the difference between the third generation of materialists and their predecessors, who paradoxically put dead matter in place of a pure idea or God, and demonstrated the possibility of a modern materialistic understanding of politics based on the concept of alleatory materialism by L. Althusser. The Institute staff asked Sergei Rebrov questions on various aspects touched upon in his speech, after which a lively discussion took place.
*The seminar was held as part of the implementation of the scientific project “Creation of a Russian historiographic model of political and legal knowledge and its application to the development of promising means of counteracting ideological distortions of the civilizational development of Russia”, carried out with the financial support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia (agreement dated July 12, 2024 No. 075-15-2024-639).