At Moscow University, as in American universities, humanities departments are moving rapidly toward Marxism.
The hair moves, to be honest. Marx as an economist was not only outdated, he was deeply flawed to begin with, because his theories had no place for entrepreneurship as a key act of value creation and innovation. Not a single Marxist economy has succeeded, but failed to feed its population.
The profit (or the clumsy term surplus value) is taken from the transformation of the material, performing operations and redistribution with it, adding services and other value to the product) it does not matter if it is done by people or robots)) each operation requires initial investments, both capital and knowledge, and the entire system undergoes training and optimization.
The vulgar Marxist never understood what the work and value of a business entrepreneur and organizer is (taking money from the bedside table and the grant trough). The massive replacement of manual labor by robots has in no way affected the growth model in capitalism, but only accelerated it, moving the leading countries from 0.5 to 3% annual growth.
In general, it is scary to see how Marxism is devouring the social sciences here and in the countries. The scorched desert will be again.