Abstract

This article deals with the science fiction novel The Heart of the Serpent, by the Soviet Ivan Efremov, and shows what we identify as an ideological vindication of the Marxist theory of history or historical materialism; and the influence that said ideological content has on the conception of science fiction that Efremov adopts and, in a meta novel exercise, he exposes in his mentioned work is studied. For this, some characteristics of Soviet science fiction in general, and the particularities of Efremov's work will be exposed. In the same way, he realizes the essential aspects of Marxist theory of history, a theoretical aspect on which Efremov bases the difference of science fiction produced in the "capitalist world", and his fiction of the future world and the extraterrestrial contact that It must be based on scientific aspects, since history as a science that manages to delineate aspects of the future society.

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  • This article deals with the science fiction novel The Heart of the Serpent, by the Soviet Ivan Efremov, and shows what we identify as an ideological vindication of the Marxist theory of history or historical materialism; and the influence that said ideological content has on the conception of science fiction that Efremov adopts and, in a meta novel exercise, he exposes

  • El conjunto de estas reflexiones, llevan a afirmar que para Efremov la ciencia ficción del mundo capitalista parte de ideas erróneas y no científicas del futuro de la sociedad, por lo que traspalan aspectos ideológicos del capitalismo al futuro y a los encuentros extraterrestres, tales e-ISSN: 1562-384X Año XXV, Número 79 Enero-Junio 2021

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Entre los aspectos históricos que el marxismo predice a futuro está la sustitución del sistema capitalista por el socialismo-comunismo, de aquí que la ciencia ficción soviética postulara el desarrollo humano futuro como una sociedad comunista.

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