Teaching Course «The Logic of Capital by K. Marx: Reactualization of Dialectical Method (Socio-Economic Context)»

The proposed curriculum of the course “The Logic of K. Marx's Capital: Reactualization of the Dialectical Method (Socio-Economic Context)” takes into account the experience accumulated by the authors in the process of teaching courses at the Economics and Philosophy Departments of Lomonosov Moscow State University. In the current version, updated and supplemented, the course was delivered at the Philosophy Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University as an interdepartmental educational course for students from different departments in the fall semester of the 2024-2025 academic year. The course aims to help students to learn what the dialectical method is, as well as to learn the basics of its application in scientific research and in forming their own position as a professional and citizen. The course is based on the dialectical method applied in Karl Marx's "Capital" and developed in the works of such representatives of Marxist socio-philosophical thought as E.V. Ilyenkov, S.N. Mareev, B. Allman, and other researchers showing the dialectics of social development of the 21st century. The course emphasizes discussions, arguments and counterarguments of leading scholars on the problems considered in the course. The relevance of studying and mastering the dialectical method is due to the fact that this method allows to study and understand social phenomena holistically, in their contradictions, to identify the essence and regularities and to distinguish them from the myths of transformed forms created with the help of various tools of social manipulation. The course assumes familiarization with examples of application of the dialectical method to the study of specifi c socio-economic phenomena. In particular, the course emphases the dialectics of transformations of socio-economic systems, which implies non-linearity and multiscenarity, the problem of developing criteria for socio-economic development and social progress, etc. The course also focuses on the dialectics of transformations of socio-economic systems, which implies non-linearity and multiscenarity.