The problem of the genesis of capitalism in Russia has a history all its own. At the close of the last century the Narodnikis disputed not only the existence, but even the very possibility of capitalist development in Russia. One major Narodnik argument to support this idea was their utterly...

In contradistinction to the conditions of the capitalist system where the formation of all proportions in the national economy is governed by the economic principles of a spontaneous market, in a socialist economy all these proportions are determined within the framework of preconceived and...

Under the conditions of the present-day economic competition of the two opposed world social systems, the choice of the most suitable methods for comparing the course and perspectives of this competition is of great significance. The point is that different methods frequently lead us to quite...

The "law of the increasing productive power of labor" is a most important one in political economy. In disclosing its substance, Marx defined it as a law, "according to which the costs of production are constantly falling, while living labor continues to grow more productive." (1) He called it a...

The idealist philosophers were justifiably reproached for the fact that they were merely trying to explain the world, when it was a question of its radical reorganization. Naturally, these accusations do not apply to Soviet economists, who are among the representatives of the most revolutionary...

In capitalist society the surplus value distributed among the ruling classes is divided in the main into the entrepreneur's profit and ground rent. Since in socialist society these parasitic classes have been abolished, they no longer share in the distribution of the surplus product. Its...

In connection with the development of cost-accounting relationships among individual enterprises within the national economic turnover of all the values and the requirements of socialist competition among the working people of our country, of late, more and more frequently, the need arises for...

The decisions taken by the Plenary Meeting of the CPSU Central Committee in November 1962 on the further reorganization of administration and the rationalization of planning in the USSR confront us with many big problems in the theory and practice of socialist planning. In particular, the tasks...

In the old, class society where parasite classes exist along with the working people, it is entirely appropriate to divide labor into "productive," always creating new goods, and "nonproductive," appropriating those goods under the guise of feudal rent or capitalist profit, i.e., as a product of...