Gafurov was born into a Gorky Tatar (Mishar) family in 1967. His father,Zakerya Shagizanovich,was a revolutionary and his mother,Anisa Sofovna Khusainova,was an artist. He received his bachelor's degree in Asian and African Studies (1992) and his PhD in economics under Alexander Buzgalin (1997) from Moscow State University. Buzgalin considered him one of his best students.[1]
Career
Gafurov worked as the Director of the Department of Finance,Credit,Insurance,and Foreign Trade within the Ministry of State Property under Prime Minister Yevgeniy Primakov. He later worked as a Counselor in the Russian Inter-Budget Relations office in the Ministry of Regional Development. In 2011,he assumed the role of Deputy Chief Editor for economic issues for the monthly journal VVP (Gross Domestic Product),[3] a publication known for its active support of Vladimir Putin. Under Gafurov's guidance,VVP became one of the most significant sources of neo-Keynesian,Marxist,and anti-neo-liberal economic policy articles in Russia. He has also served as a consultant for various government ministries in issues of foreign economic relations. Since Putin's first term,Gafurov has elaborated[how?] the concept of Russian Bonapartism and the attempts by the bourgeoisie for Liberal Revenge.[4] He has also had regular speaking appearances at international congresses,where he stresses the need for state-funded political-economic research.[citation needed]
Political thought
Gafurov is a Russian Marxist within Alexander Buzgalin's school of thought,though his beliefs subscribe more closely to positivism than Buzgalin's dialectical metaphysical beliefs. He rejects the concepts of the Asiatic mode of production and the USSR's state capitalism,which he based on analysis of the role of credit relations in USSR and other countries with a state capitalist system. He supports the reconciliation of Stalinism,Trotskyism,and Maoism as he believes the differences have only historical significance.[5] He also supports the quantitative theory of imperialism,holding that stronger imperialism is better than weaker imperialism,a view that contradicts Leninist defeatism. Gafurov believes this position allows for tactical alliances with weaker imperialist approaches such as Russian and Iranian imperialism,though he rejects Chinese imperialism.[6] Despite this,he supports China in all South China Sea conflicts except for the conflict with Vietnam over the Paracel Islands.[citation needed]
Gafurov's anti-crisis beliefs are rooted in Keynesian economics.[7][8] Based on the financial crises of 1998-1999,2008-2009,and 2014-2016,Gafurov elaborated[how?] on the concepts of mismatch (pассогласование) and imbalance (pазбалансировка) of credit-monetary and fiscal-budgetary policies as the main cause of anti-crisis policy's ineffectiveness.[7][8][9] The Central Bank of Russia[10] and the Ministry of Finance[11] both rejected his hypotheses on grounds of the absence of said mismatch.[12] With epistemological data,Gafurov is considered a nominalist. He views ethics as a narrative,"positive rather than normative" as "[e]thics and behavior are subject to the same laws."[citation needed] In the late 1990s,Gafurov wrote several articles for the journal Рынокценныхбумаг (Securities market),building on the Ergodic approach to equity research.[13] He wrote that statistical methods could be used only when the time series of securities' prices are subject to ergodicity principles. The practical significance of Gafurov's thereom corollary,which he calls lemma,is based on the Bayesian approach. In 2013,Gafurov began working with Buzgalin on international political-economic network reorganization.
Gafurov disapproves of NATO,neocolonialism,and neo-racism and is critical of the European Union's "parasitic capitalist policies" in Africa and Europe,claiming that "capital is indifferent to everything except its profit. It needs to capture new markets and destroy their production."[14] He is a leader of the Russian Social Forum movement[15] and has participated in writing programs documenting the movement in defense of labour. In 2017,he was a key organizer of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Sochi,Russia and made at least 11 speeches during the festival.[citation needed]
Gafurov opposes the concept of intellectual property,claiming that it damages the common good and that most modern culture is sponsored by the state and philanthropy anyway.[clarification needed] He was among the first Russian scholars to publish his PhD dissertation on the internet as early as 1996;[26] this led to his involvement in some Russian Dissernet scandals as a source of violated copyright.[27] Gafurov has been accused of plagiarising short news articles from Greek,Indian,and Bengali radical Marxist sources several times. He has also been criticised for "dilettantism" in his psychological and philosophical works,in part due to his application of mathematical concepts not common in these fields. In general,Gafurov approaches psychology from an experimental and analytical standpoint and seeks to identify hidden rationality in irrationality.[citation needed]
Gafurov is fluent in Arabic. In 2012,he began writing as an opera critic for Pravda and focuses mainly on the social side,rather than the musical side. In his study of aesthetics,he differentiates between "absence of taste" and "bad taste" with comparisons to the differences in pop music,which he denies holds any aesthetic values,and classical music. He wrote that absence of taste is to be "more likely to listen to popular singers than good symphonic orchestra".[citation needed]
Gafurov uses a number of pen names,including Elbrus Byudzhetnikov (ЭльбрусБюджетников),Sofya Antiokhiyskaya (СофьяАнтиохийская),and Lucretia and Brunhilda Rabinowitz (ЛукрецияиБрунгильдаРабиновитц). Gafurov has written monographs for various Russian economic ministries,including The Intergovernmental Commissions and the modernization of the Russian economy (2011),The initiative 'Partnership for Modernization' and the Russian national interests (2013),and The WTO mechanisms and non-discriminatory operations of Russian oil and gas companies in the European Energy markets (2014). Among the topics Gafurov writes about are economics,security markets in Arabic countries,and what he considered "problems" in Isma'ilism,Druzism,Alawism,Shīʿism,and Sunnism. He believes the difference between Muslim sects is political more than anything and that sect-specific madhhabs made this more concrete.[citation needed]
1996:The experience of comparative analysis of privatization and the formation of the corporate securities market in developing and post-socialist countries (Опытсравнительногоанализаприватизациииформированиярынкакорпоративныхценныхбумагвразвивающихсяипост-социалистическихстранах)[29]
2011:The Intergovernmental Commissions and the Modernization of the Russian economy (Межправительственныекомиссииимодернизацияроссийскойэкономики)
2013:The initiative "Partnership for Modernization" and the Russian national interests (Инициатива"Партнерстводлямодернизации)
2013:The philosophy of Equity research (Философияфондовогоанализа)
2014:The WTO mechanisms and non-discriminatory operations of Russian oil and gas companies in the European Energy markets (МеханизмыВТОинедискриминационныйрежимработыроссийскихнефтегазовыхкомпанийнаевропейскомрынке)
2019:The Cross,the crescent and the Arab nation:ideological currents in the Middle East (Крест,полумесяциарабскаянация:идейныетечениянаБлижнемВостоке) - ISBN978-5-4475-9852-5[30]
2020: Combat ecology: How Greenpeace, WWF and other international environmental organizations are undermining Russia's development (Боевая экология. Как Greenpeace, WWF и другие международные экологические организации подрывают развитие России) - ISBN978-5-4461-1723-9
2021: Look into the future and get rich! Philosophy, ethics and algebra of stock analysis (Заглянуть в будущее и разбогатеть! Философия, этика и алгебра фондового анализа Заглянуть в будущее и разбогатеть! Философия, этика и алгебра фондового анализа) - ISBN978-5-4499-0262-7
↑ Nagorniy, Alexander (5 July 2019). "Религия и революция"[Religion and Revolution]. Zavtra.
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