Whilst terms like ‘law of the tendency’, ‘tendency law’ and „tendential law‟ appear in Marxist political economy, their meaning is unclear. This paper identifies the main conceptions of laws and tendencies buried in these terms and disambiguates them. Part one differentiates three conceptions of law: (i) event regularity; (ii) event regularity/tendency and (iii) tendency. Part two focuses on (i...

Scholarly interest in Marxist philosophy has fluctuated dramatically in the past fifty years. Before that, there was little scholarly work in Britain on Marxist philosophy or on Marxism more generally. In the nineteen fifties there were important contributions by economic theorists and social historians but academic discussion of Marx's philosophy or even of his political theory was minimal and...

In this paper I intend to contrast the ‘falling rate of profit’ crisis theories of the 1970s with the ‘underconsumptionism’ of the orthodox Marxist tradition. The central argument is that in rejecting traditional underconsumptionist theories of crisis contemporary Marxism has thrown the baby out with the bathwater, with unfortunate theoretical and political consequences. A more adequate critiqu...

The application of Marxist analysis in accounting has been seriously hampered by an economistic specter, promulgated even by those who profess to be " Marxists ". One consequence for accounting research has been a regression into culturalist, linguistic, and relativistic analysis, that putatively eschew the " Grand Narratives " of critical social analysis. Using two recent contributions to the ...

The article analyzes the methodology of modern economic theory. advantages and disadvantages Of McConnell brew economies are analyzed. It is compared with textbook “Political economy” period USSR Soviet Russia. A literature review has shown that many authors critical Main stream looking for alternative theories methodologies. institutional reasons teaching Economics. Given growing global crisis...

The recent development of child guidance clinics and behavior research centers presents students of human nature and social relations with new opportunities and new problems. The history of science seems to demonstrate that whenever a body of theoretical knowledge becomes oriented and useful with reference to a concrete human problem a period of rapid development ensues. The evidence for such a...

The procedure of assisting learning, gathering information, skills, values, morals, beliefs, habits, and personal growth, is referred to as education. Education should focus not only on developing students’ professional abilities but also guiding ideological political perspectives. purpose the education promote Marxist sociology theories with Chinese features, well bring students together for l...