Preface to his monograph on the socio-philosophical analysis of the social control of the state over society as one of the most important instruments of social control. The book is intended for researchers, managers, as well as for anyone interested in issues of social management and control in...

The paper reconstructs the Veblenian critique of the pecuniary economy from the perspective of Niklas Luhmann's theory of autopoietic social systems. Luhmann argued that social systems relieve people from the overwhelming civilizational complexity, but develop autopoietic properties hindering...

The paper offers a novel interpretation and affirmation of the opening arguments of Capital, answering the fundamental but neglected question of why labour is the substance of value. Marx's arguments require that two philosophical threads, often separated in the literature on value, be woven...