Post-Communist Mutations

Domenico Mario Nuti ()
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Chapter 7 in Collected Works of Domenico Mario Nuti, Volume II, 2023, pp 131-145 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract One of the first, major, contributions to ‘Evolutionary Political Economy’ was undoubtedly made by Karl Marx with his theory of the evolution of economic systems—which he called, “modes of production”. According to Marx’s dialectical method, system evolution is driven by the emergence of conflicts and contradictions, and their resolution through change. In short, Marx envisaged conflicts between nature and man; between the development of productive forces and the productive relations associated with them; and between the economic base and the superstructure of a mode of production. In Engels’ appraisal, “Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history”. In the end this may turn out to be Marx’s main, indeed perhaps only, lasting contribution to political economy.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-23167-4_7

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