The need to make the transition to economic methods of management, a task advanced to the forefront by the decisions of the Twenty-seventh Congress and January 1987 Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee, underscores the need for finding a precise answer to the question: What are economic methods?...

The limited ability of neoclassical "mainstream" to explain deep fundamental shifts in economic structures of the present day world determines the renaissance of alternative schools of economic theory, including Marxism. The article is aimed to show theoretical concepts of modern Russian...

Implications of the modern Marxist theory create the opportunity to show the inevitability, the reasons and the main features of the first world crisis of the XXI century. It has been generated by deregulation of economy, which caused the ‘classical’ crisis of overproduction, and by the new...

The authors argue that historical systematic approach creates opportunity to show that in the 21st century economy Human being is to a greater extent the subject of creative activity and at the same time is subordinated to the total hegemony of market ("market fundamentalism" — G. Soros) and...

The article shows that "Capital" gives the key for the understanding of the anatomy of both classical and modern market economy. "Capital" is relevant as such for the analysis of the classical features of market economy which still exists. Critical dialectical method of "Capital" has helped to...

(on the Article by E. Gaidar and V. Mau «Marxism: Between the Scientific Theory and "Secular Religion"») The authors criticize the main idea of the paper by E. Gaydar and V. Mau (VE, 2004, No 5, 6) concerning the possibility of partial utilization of Marxian ideas in the framework of the...

The "marketocentric" economic theory is now dominating in modern science (similar to Ptolemeus geocentric model of the universe in the Middle Ages). But market economy is only one of different types of economic systems which became the main mode of resources allocation and motivation only in the...