Moscow Methodological Circle

The Moscow Methodological Circle (MMC) was a scientific organisation set up by Georgy Shchedrovitsky to examine problems from an inter-disciplinary point of view, looking at the various methodological approaches of each discipline to yield what they described as "systemic thinking activity".[1]

The MMC started out as an informal group meeting in a pub on Gorky Street which included the mathematician Alexander Zinoviev, the sociologist Boris Grushin and the philosopher Merab Mamardashvili. They attracted the attention of the KGB but were tolerated.[2]

Legacy

The MMC has had a lasting impact on Russian systems thinking particularly through the Methodological School of Management. This is acknowledged by Viktor Khristenko.

gollark: Do a class action thing claiming to represent everyone who was scammed with them?
gollark: *Could* you try and make money by launching masses of lawsuits against all 5G blocking healing quantum frequency crystal sellers?
gollark: Wrong. It's quantum computing. Quantum computing and consciousness are both confusing and therefore equivalent.
gollark: Don't we all?
gollark: Do they not realize that humans existed 25900 years ago (although that predates agriculture and whatever), or something?

References
  1. Liborakina, Marina (1996). "A bridge between past and future". Simulation and Gaming Yearbook. Psychology Press. 4: 41–48. ISBN 9780749418663. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  2. Rindzeviciute, Egle (2015). "The Future as an Intellectual Technology in the Soviet Union: From Centralised Planning to Reflexive Management". Cahiers du monde Russe. 56 (1): 111–134. doi:10.4000/monderusse.8169.
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