The historical essence of labour (a review of an international scholarly and theoretical conference)
The article presents an analytical review of the main reports to the international scholarly conference “The Historical Essence of Labour”. The majority of the participants in the conference engaged in creatively developing the Marxist theory of labour, using the methodology of materialist monism and the materialist dialectic. Presenters stressed that profound transformations in the content of labour serve to condition the economic, social and cultural changes in modern society. Taking part in the conference were scholars from Moscow State University and other leading Russian universities, as well as from institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Foreign researchers also contributed. Organising the proceedings were the Russian philosophical society “Dialectics and Culture”, the Faculty of Philosophy of the Ivan Franko Drohobych State University (Drohobych, Ukraine), the Eastern Department of the Kazakhstan Philosophical Congress (Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan), and the Centre for Modern Marxist Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy at Moscow State University (Moscow).