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A Brief Innovative Study On Lukacs's Marist Theory

Posted on:2012-02-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L M ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330332497713Subject:Foreign Marxism
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A Brief Innovative Study on Lukacs's Marxism Theory A Reasearch on The Viewpoint of Lukacs's History and Class ConsciousnessHumanitarian is the mainstream of western Marxism, and Lukacs is the first western Marxist with ideological characteristics of humanitarianism which is inherited mostly by all kinds of western Marxist faction afterwards. This paper begins with lukacs'thoughts by introducing his book History and class consciousness, the theme of which is mainly about Class consciousness and Materialism. This paper will explore his thoughts from the aspects of class consciousness and truth, Material theory and how to overcome it etc.Firstly, Lukacs'material theory is the inhabitation of Marxism theory which is turned to be a basic category of criticism on capitalism. Materialization means that the activities and labor of mankind stands opposite with mankind themselves as something objective, something independent from human being or something, different from human's self-discipline, control on human. Lukacs proposes that our objective is to consider the materialism as a general phenomenon which composes the whole capitalist society. Materialism is a necessary and direct reality of every single person living in the capitalist society.Materialism is reflected in the aspect of economy. It was born in the middle of commodity economic activities of modern capitalism. In capitalist production system, not only the working class is materialized but also capitalists and other social class is included. It is the capitalist society that makes all the class materialized essentially. The typical significance for the entire social structure is that the self-objective, the fact of human's function transforming into commodity, reveals exactly the nature of commodity connection having been dehumanized or being dehumanized. Besides, Materialism can also be found in the aspect of superstructure and ideology. The phenomenon of materialization of superstructure is mainly refers to the materialization of bureaucracy system. The law with its demands and being suitable for its structure or a corresponding country is created during the development of capitalism.From the aspect of ideology, the structure of materialism is deeply, definitely and decisively planted in human being's mind. To overcome the materialism is decided by nature of proletariat. On the basis of its class ideology, proletariat can realize the truly overcome of the materialism only through breaking the capitalism's social production system with practical action.The truthfulness of ideology closely connected with its status of social class. The proletarian ideology possesses truthfulness; on the contrary, the capitalism ideology is a false one. Class consciousness is the feeling of status of class history. The class consciousness of bourgeois adapts to the economy consciousness, meanwhile, it exposes that it is a highest degree of unconsciousness and a absolutely false consciousness. The main reason of this is the bourgeois is only for the interest of minority interest. It is very necessary for bourgeois itself to cover the nature of bourgeois society. Only the proletarian consciousness can point out the way of coming out of the crisis from capitalism.The practicalness of the proletariat is based on the consciousness of their own class. The real proletarian consciousness, namely marxist dialectics, and its basic characteristics are about "collectivity". Collectivity refers to the historical and specific collectives. There are many representations of collectivity, such as the unification of direct and indirect, the integration of theory and practice; the unification of process and the target, etc. Overall speaking, it leads to the decisive difference between the bourgeoisie and marxism.The general category and the comprehensive and decisive dominance of each part are the essence that Marx updated Hegel's theories to a brand-new science.Having the consciousness of collectivity means the mature of the proletariat, meanwhile it also means the power of reforming the society has been achieved.Lukacs utilizing the the theory of collectivity interpreted the Marxism dialectics, which is the methodology that overcomes the crises of capitalism. Thus, the materialistic dialectics are revolutionary dialectics.Lukacs gives class consciousness unprecedented significant meaning and considers the process of the proletaria completes their missions is determined by it. Meanwhile.Lukacs has the tendency of determinism. He puts forward the battle between the proletariat and bourgeoisie is on the economic and political aspects and also expending to the ideological field.Lukacs' humanitarian thoughts embodied in his theories of materialization and class consciousness. The capitalist system that its chemical nature of inhumane quality, it is the reason the capitalist system is not reasonable. Corresponding to this, social liberation is human nature from the return of materialized state.In Lukacs theory, he considered the overcome of the materialism is the essential character of the theory of Marxist. It is this character that reflects its rationality, that is, Marxism shows its superior with its humanitarian. Consequently, the key of proletarian movement is the realization of its conciseness and mature class consciousness. Therefore, lukacs emphasizes the revolution in the field of ideology. Lukacs'reinterpretation of Marxist with humanitarian spirit is the expansion and propulsion of Marxist theory. Western Marxist humanitarian is an importance reference to the construction of modern China. After more than 30 years'development of market economy, though china is still a developing country, yet the developed industrial society features has been shown in many social fields. At present, the roots of many disharmonious factors in Chinese society come from the strong dependence on the material caused by market economy. To develop a harmonious society is how to overcome the dependence on the material to rebuild the spiritual homeland for the society and individual.
Keywords/Search Tags:Western Marxism, Materialized, Class consciousness, Totality, Humanitarian
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