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• Scientific Council of RAS on economic history;
• Research and Educational Center «The economic history of Central Russia and the Middle Volga region» of Ogarev Mordovia State University;
• Center of Economic History of  Lomonosov Moscow State University

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Nikolay S. Savkin

Ogarev Mordovia State University,

Saransk, Russia, e-mail: savkinns@yandex.ru

THEORY OF THE CONSUMPTION-MANUFACTURE: THE HISTORY OF FORMATION IN RUSSIA

The article analyzes the history of formation of the consumption-manufacture`s theory in Russia. It originates with the earlier works of German economist Karl Marx and philosopher Friedrich Engels, who for the first time in the scientific literature have paid attention to the production process of the person as a result of direct manufacture of material resources and life, which are not only a product, but a man is a productive force and carrier of productive relations, as well as his professional status and social position in the system of social interactions. This idea of the man`s production was widely discussed, first in the German science, then in the Russian science. Henry Coons qualified it as «a form of sexual intercourse», Karl Kautsky considered it as «the continuation of the human race». But both were taken this process beyond economic production. In Russia this problem was handled by N. K. Mikhailovsky, N. I. Karev and in Soviet and post-Soviet time by V. G. Panov, E. T. Borodin, A. M. Kovalev, I. N. Sizemskaya, Yu. K. Pleshnikov, V. Ya. Elmeev etc. The greatest contribution to the study and development of this problem was made by a famous Russian scientist, philosopher, economist and sociologist V. Ya. Elmeev, who published on this topic a number of major studies. At the present time the consumption-manufacture is thought of as a process, which is implemented as well in the sphere of direct production as beyond. Individual, who spends its force, energy, ability in the production process, at the same time develops from reproduces the social status and social position. In the wake of desobjectivation of in the material and mental products embodied labor he reproduces himself as a single social subject, as a person in his social ties and relations. Therefore, the consumption is not simple destruction, but a production, referred as a consumption-manufacture.

Keywords: product, labor, manufacture, history, needs, private property, family relationship, fertility, social reproduction, productive forces, ethnic groups, objectification-desobjectivation, mental production, consumption-manufacture, social person.

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