Three Of Marx's Theory Of Social Patterns And China's Modern Social Transformation

The main purpose of this dissertation is to examine Marx's theory of three social orders, then to analyses the essential aspects of China's transformation to modern society on the basis of the theory. Accordingly, this dissertation consists mainly of two parts : the first part is to interpret the essential meaning of Marx's theory of three social orders , the process of its forming , the relation between this theory and Marx's other theories of social order , the reasons of regarding the evolvement of three social orders as a general law of historical development ; the second part is to analyses the essential character and main duty of China's transformation to modern society according to the law of evolvement of three social orders.The dissertation is divided into six chapters.Chapter I discusses the essential meaning of Marx's theory of three social orders. Firstly, the classical expression of the theory, which was made by Marx in 《Economic Manuscript 1857—1858》 and four common interpretations to it are introduced. Then the implication and drawbacks of the four common interpretations are presented respectively. Finally, a point that we should interpret various aspects of the theory synthetically and comprehensively is put forward.Chapter II inspects the theory's forming process and its interrelation with Marx's other theories of social formation under the developing progress of Marx's historical materialism. After investigating the forming clues of the theory, the article points out that there are two logical clues in Marx's social formation theory, one is objective description and the other is the combination of objective description and subjective initiative, the latter being embodied in the theory of three social orders. The purpose of this chapter is to illustrate that this theory is neither a temporary nor an additive saying when researching the capitalist society, but Marx's dominated and consistent idea in the social developing theory, which has its own logical clues.Chapter III concentrates on the interrelationship between the theory of three social orders and five social orders, and the interrelationship between the theory of three social orders and economic social formation. The first half of the chapter begins with the introduction of three common viewpoints over the two kinds of theories, followed by deep investigation and description of some biased nature in them, then comes up with the conclusion that we must draw a clear distinction between what was said by Marx himself and what has long been accepted as dogmatical statements. The later half of chapter introduces various understandings to the theory of three social orders evoked by the discussion of economic social formation, points out the drawbacks of and the author's disproval to the idea that economic social formation only exists in a definite historical period. This chapter is to deepen the understanding of Marx' theory of three social orders through the discussion of the other two important theories related to it.The first half of chapter IV gives the following reasons to explain why the theory of three social orders is the general law for the development of history and...