Authors:
P. A. Stepnov
Dostoevsky Omsk State University, Omsk, Russian Federation
Abstract:
The author attempts to consider the widest possible range of factors and conditions that ensured the emergence, dominant development at the global level, stagnation and significant loss of scientific, theoretical and practical relevance of Marxism in the modern world. As the main objectives of the study the authors selected: first, an analysis of the conditions and factors contributed to the transformation of classical Marxism from a scientific theory into a semblance of an ideocratic doctrine; second, an analysis of the real significance of Marxism’s scientific achievements in historical perspective;
and third, an assessment of the futurological component of the Marxist method of studying capitalism in the mid-19th century and the degree of its predictive accuracy. To achieve these goals, the system-structural method of research and the method of comparative analysis were used. In the first part of the article, Marxism is examined as a simulacrum of the world atheistic religion. Ideocraticity elements in the theory and practice of classical Marxism were identified and grouped, and objective (specifically historical and socio-economic) and subjective (the role of Marx’s personalities) ones and his environment (adherents and opponents) in the sacralization of Marxism), factors and conditions of their genesis and development were analyzed. In the second part of the article, the hypothesis of Marxism as a left-wing radical form of globalization is expressed.
The third part of the article assesses the Marx’s modern significance as a theoretical researcher and social futurist. The analysis of the real significance of scientific achievements of Marxism in historical retrospect and perspective is given.
Keywords:
Marx, ideocracy, мarxism, sacralisation, globalism, futurology, socio-economic and political forecast.
Paper submitted:
August 22, 2020.
For citation:
Stepnov P. A. (2020). Marxism as a ideocracy and science. The Science of Person: Humanitarian Researches, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 232–247. DOI: 10.17238/issn1998-5320.2020.14.4.28.
