Empiriomonism: Essays in Philosophy, Books 1–3, by Alexander Bogdanov, edited and translated by David G. Rowley. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

The translation of Alexander Bogdanov’s Empiriomonism into English may be considered either belated or well timed. First crafted between 1904 and 1906, its three volumes were produced for and by the revolution in Russia, constituting what may be considered a manifesto of heretical tendencies in Marxism, uniting a generation against Plekhanov’s orthodoxy; a collection of essays; or an ambitious philosophical treatise. Empiriomonism expresses a style of 1905 revolutionary thought but has philosophically outlived the urgencies and contexts of its publication. This review essay examines Bogdanov’s contribution as an attempt to unite empiricism and Marxism, as a theory of technics and of the mutually constituted ideological organization of social forms, and as a relevant philosophical tool for engaging with speculative, political, and ecological issues abandoned by the Marxist canon.