The theory of “universal organizational science” became the crowning achievement of the works of the outstanding Russian thinker of the 20th century, Alexander Alexandrovich Bogdanov-Malinovsky (1873-1928). His audacious attempt to reduce organizational principles to a “universal point of view” was the result of a bright revolutionary, not only political, but also scientific life path. Like all great things, it was met with a barrage of criticism from its contemporaries. The article provides a brief analysis of it, as well as an analysis of the influence of tectology on philosophical and Marxist-Leninist dialectical theories of that time. The role of tectology as a harbinger of subsequent systemic views and the general theory of systems is shown.