On the history of the formation of social philosophy of the XX century: the second discussion about the Asian mode of production

Smetankina Lyudmila Vasilievna, Ogarkov Aleksandr Nikolayevich

This article discusses the issues of the "Asian" mode of production, as a specific for a number of countries (not necessarily the East or Southeast Asia) economic structure (and not a formation), which retains its importance for a long time. For example, the traditions of a large family, with the unconditional authority of the head of the family, the strength of kinship ties, historical forms of economy (irrigated agriculture) are signs characteristic of the way of life of a number of countries that have freed themselves from colonial dependence. Thus, the theory of socio-economic formations is able to successfully solve methodological difficulties in the process of explicating the content of the categories of the universal and the particular in historical analysis, provided that the formation typology remains open for deepening and expansion and is applied in a specific research situation.

Keywords:social philosophy, Asian mode of production, discussion, countries of the East, social contradictions