Abstract:
With this article, we aim to shed light on some elements of the critique of political economy as a method that favor the development of research in the field of human and social sciences. For this, we start from the writings produced by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – which we complement with the theoretical advances produced by some Marxist intellectuals over the last century and a half – in an effort to highlight important principles for investigation. We emphasize, as relevant aspects of the work, that social research must be based on the concrete reality, and it is up to the researcher to discover the mediation between appearance and essence through successive approximations of reconstruction, in thought, of the totality of the analyzed phenomenon, from their own movement, in view of social transformation.
Keywords:
Method; Political economy; Dialectic; Materialism; Marx