ON THE METHOD, PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS AND BASIS OF BUILDING A GENERAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
In economic manuscripts of 1857-1859 K. Marx outlined a program for creating a general political economy that would describe both material production in general and its main historical forms. K. Marx implemented his program only in relation to capitalist society. Much was achieved on this path by his ideological heirs. However, it is still impossible to recognize the program of K. Marx as fully implemented, including because a unified system of categories of general political economy has not yet been created. The construction of this system is possible only on the basis of the modern form of historical materialism and using the refined method of "Capital" - a logical ascent from the concrete to the abstract and further from the abstract to the concrete (concrete-universal). As the “beginning” of building this system, one can consider an invention that, on the one hand, has a visual, directly given objective expression, and on the other hand, turns out to be as identical as possible to the essence of man, material production and labor. General labor in its various historical forms can act as the substantial basis of the invention.