Methodology of economic science and crisis. The Marxist theory of collapse

Abstract

This paper is a Marxist methodological guide to embroider the current global crisis. We first address the theory of knowledge and apply it to the process of Karl Marx as a scientific thinker of his time. Then we make a general review of the deviation of the social sciences in terms of their human objective when the researcher disregards his scientific commitment and limits reflection to established forms and knowledge. Having delimited the process of knowledge itself, we move on to reflect on the concepts, models and schemes of "equilibrium" of theoretical economics, passing through the classical, Keynesian and neo-liberal postulates; a general historical review of the main characteristics of the different stages in which capitalism has evolved up to the present day from a Marxist theoretical perspective. The article concludes with a very general description of capitalism at the beginning of the 21st century and proposes some hypotheses to be empirically tested.