Methodological controversy of anti-corruption measures

摘要

Considerable forces and means are involved in fight against corruption. However, all efforts do not give the desired result. This happens because anti-corruption fight is carried out from the standpoint of an idealistic methodology, which postulates the impossibility of achieving a "win" over corruption. The misunderstood (politicized) integrative approach is a kind of idealistic approach, when an attempt is made to combine incompatible universal methods of cognition. At the same time, it is impossible to deny the importance of an integrative approach in interdisciplinary research, in which the particular (special) methods of separate disciplines are arranged in a single set. But this single set of particular methods must be correlated only with one universal method. This article substantiates the conclusion that an increase in the effectiveness of fight against corruption is possible only when using a dialectical materialist methodology that shows the way to reduce this negative phenomenon to a socially safe level.