El Giro de Lenin o el Factor-R de la Comunicación

Dirk Baecker

doi:10.5354/rmad.v0i27.21887

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Lenin’s Twist, or the R-Factor of Communication

Authors

Dirk Baecker Universidad Zeppelin

No. 27 (2012)

https://doi.org/10.5354/rmad.v0i27.21887

Abstract

Identity may be modeled by Spencer-Brownian qualitative mathematics, introducing identity as an argument agreed upon by communication taking place between first-order and second-order observers. The paper uses this notion and its mathematics in order to present a model of the role of Lenin's Bolshevik party in the Russian revolution and the institution of a Soviet state. The idea is to test the provision of sociological systems theory with a ‘calculus of form' representing the concatenation of observations acted upon in social intercourse. ‘Lenin's twist' consists in the invention of an exclusive, conspiratorial, and professional political party as the main actor of revolution. His knot, which strangles the idea of the revolution and many of its proponents, is the necessity of having to accept the state as the battlefield of that party and as the institution that has to fight a war, reorganize a national economy, reinvent Russia, and promote the socialist revolution in a capitalist environment.

Keywords:

Social Systems Theory, Calculus of Form, Identity, Russian Revolution, Lenin

Author Biography

Dirk Baecker, Universidad Zeppelin

Dirk Baecker es actualmente profesor de cátedra en el departamento de Teoría y Análisis Cultural de la Universidad Zepelin de Alemania. Doctor en Sociología por la Universidad de Bielefeld, Alemania. Entre sus áreas de especialización se encuentran: teoría de sistemas sociales, teoría y análisis cultural, economía y management.