The Philosophy of Living Experience (Russian: Философия живого опыта) is a book by Alexander Bogdanov, which he wrote in 1911 and published in 1913.
[2]: 249 This is the book in which Bogdanov most extensively discusses the relationship of his thought to both Karl Marx and Ernst Mach.
[3]: 263 Indeed Bogdanov cites the unpublished work of Nikifor Vilonov, a worker-philosopher who attended the Capri school.
[2] Two manuscripts of the text dating from 1911 is in the Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Contemporary History (Rossiiskii tsentr khraneniiai izucheniia dokumentov noveishei istorii): the first consist of chapters I and II (205 pages) and the second covers Chapters III -IV (RTsKhIDNI f 259, op.
Bogdanov starts this discussion by looking at the unpublished work of two worker-philosophers active at the time: Fedor Kalinin and Nikifor Vilonov.