“Marxism,” wrote the American legal historian William E. Nelson in 1985, “is not about to disappear as an attractive ideology or as a powerful political force in the world.” The prediction was not well timed. The Marxism of the socialist bloc was anything but an attractive ideology or a...

This paper reviews the recent literature on exploitation. It distinguishes between three main species of exploitation theory: (1) teleology-based, including harm and mutual benefit accounts, (2) respect-based, including mere means, force, rights, and fairness accounts, and (3) freedom-based,...

English Abstract: The article analyzes the phenomenon of ownership in its legal, economic, political and philosophical perspectives. Ownership is considered as an opportunity and as a guarantee of sustainable development. Comparative context is used to identify the specificity of the bourgeois...

This paper argues that recognition is, fundamentally, a relationship between a person and a reason. The recognizer acts for a reason, in the interpersonal case, only when she takes the recognizee's rational intentions—intentions whose content is favoured by reasons—as reasons. Free agency,...

This paper argues that exploitation is a form of domination, domination for self-enrichment. In a slogan, exploitation is a dividend of servitude – a benefit the powerful extract by converting the vulnerable into their servants. The paper argues that what makes exploitation wrong is that it...

The paper sketches a coherent history of the choice of the measure standard from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to Sraffa's Production of Commodities. As neither the Smithian labour commanded unit nor the Ricardian-Marxian labour embodied one provide a general solution to the dilemma concerning...

Marx did not confine himself to criticising capitalism. He predicted the rise of a new mode of production which would take the place of capitalism and which he indifferently termed socialism or communism. In the light of this, the author thinks that even today those who do not envisage the...

Russian Abstract: В статье анализируются ошибочные аргументы Туган-Барановского, Борткевича и Стидмена, которые до сих пор используются критиками теории трансформации...

Italian Abstract: Il possibile nesso tra crisi economiche e quello che Marx e Hilferding chiamavano "centralizzazione" del capitale è uno dei temi sollevati dalla "grande recessione". L'articolo esamina i principali studi dedicati a tale nesso, confrontando la letteratura economica marxista e...