The ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism is manifested with particular intensity in the realm of political economy. Marx wrote that "the development of political economy and the antithesis engendered by it go hand in hand with the r-eal d evelopment of social contradictions and...

The beginning of a new, decisive stage in the competition of the two socio-economic systems exerts an ever increasing influence on the development of modern bourgeois political economy. The latter can no longer limit itself to empty declarations on the imaginary "moral" and "political"...