On the dialectical approach to studying the evolution of economic systems

The text presented here presents a system of arguments concerning the dialectical nature of the evolution of economic systems when in different states of their phase dynamics. We are now at the point of a phase transformation involving a transition from
the industrial to the (post)industrial system of development of the economy. A change is under way in the very structure of the economic system, a change that is conditioned by existing contradictions within the forces and relations of production, and that results from a dialectical contradiction between momentarily coexisting but qualitatively different macro-objects. For studying the qualitative aspects of this evolutionary development, the conditions under which a new economic system is being born, and the
functioning of complex, weakly structured economic systems, the dialectic method is thus required. The text puts forward a system of arguments to the effect that the change of economic systems (their evolution) occurs on the basis of the resolving of a dialectical
contradiction. Also presented is a qualitative characterisation of the mechanism of evolution of economic systems during various phases of their development; in line with this, a graphic substantiation is provided for the logic of the transformations they undergo.
Qualitative characterisations are made of the dialectics of development of economic systems in the different phase-states of genesis, development and regression. Applying the instructive potential of the dialectical method thus makes it possible to present, in readily understandable fashion, the dialectic of the regression of old and the genesis of new economic systems, as well as the complexity of their non-linear transformations.