Mikhail Vasilyevich Popov

Mikhail Vasilyevich Popov (; born 24 February 1945 in Tambov Oblast) is a Soviet Russian scientist in the fields of philosophy and economy. Doktor Nauk in Philosophical Sciences, Professor at the Saint Petersburg State University, He is the leader and ideologist of the Workers' Party of Russia.

Lived in Saint Petersburg (since 1946). During his student years, he was engaged in sambo.

From 1971 he worked at the Saint Petersburg State University.

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

He is a Molodaya Gvardiya (magazine) award winner (1981).

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.

Select bibliography Демократический централизм – основной принцип управления социалистической экономикой. Лениздат. 1975 – 174 стр. Ленинизм как современный марксизм