The Marxist approach towards humanizing the economy and contemporary concepts of happiness

Using contemporary concepts of happiness, the author analyzes the applicability of K. Marx's (1818-1883) ideas about creative and social human nature as a possible methodological basis for studying the phenomenon of humanizing the economy. It is concluded that these ideas are relevant in the 21st century, but it is necessary to complete them with moral restrictions in order to unite the principles of humanism as anthropocentrism with those of humaneness as the primacy of ethics.