Criticism Of The Theory Of Civilization Conflict Under The Background Of Great Changes

The theory of civilization conflict,tracing its origin,comes from American scholar Samuel Huntington.Under the background of great changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and the collapse of the bipolar pattern,Samuel Huntington put forward the theory of civilization conflict,trying to put forward a new interpretation paradigm for international politics after the cold war.Although Huntington’s clash of civilizations theory reflected the situation and causes of political and ideological struggle at that time to a certain extent and attracted people’s attention to the contradiction of international civilization,it was based on the narrow bourgeois position,adhered to Western individualism and egoistic values,and completely reversed the relationship between civilization,economy and ideology,It has undeniable theoretical defects.As the world faces profound changes unseen in a century,new varieties and forms of the theory of conflict of civilizations have sprung up in the west,which has once again aroused people’s great concern about the theory of conflict of civilizations.Under the background of the United States launching a trade war against China,Kieran Skinner,then director of the policy planning office of the U.S.State Department,put forward a new theory of civilization conflict specifically aimed at China.This new theory inherits the leading logic of Samuel Huntington’s theory of the conflict of Civilizations,which advocates the conflict between civilizations.It has a stronger color of racism,containment and hegemonism.In essence,it is a more radical and naked expression and embodiment of the theory of the conflict of Civilizations today.In the context of great changes,the new and old clash of civilizations theory has a direct impact on the economic,political and ideological trend of China,the United States and even the world.It systematically combs and criticizes the wrong views,logic and positions of the new and old clash of civilizations theory,reveals its hegemonic essence and its deception and misleading to world public opinion,and constructs a civilized concept of harmonious mutual learning,common prosperity and symbiosis,It has important theoretical and practical value.This paper is mainly divided into five chapters:The first chapter introduces the origin of the criticism of the theory of civilization conflict under the background of great changes,which is mainly composed of four parts: the sediment of the theory of civilization conflict,the still rampant Western centrism,the practical needs to deal with the global challenges of great changes and the theoretical needs to build a new concept of civilization.The second chapter mainly elaborates the basic contents of Huntington’s theory of civilization conflict and the theory of new civilization conflict,and compares them,so as to lay the foundation for the following criticism of civilization conflict theory.The third chapter mainly criticizes Huntington’s viewpoint,logical method and position of civilization conflict theory.First,he criticizes the main viewpoints of Huntington’s theory of civilization conflict.He completely reverses the relationship between civilization,economy and ideology,ignores historical facts,regards civilization as self-centered,and mistakenly takes civilization differences as the starting point of civilization conflict.The second is to criticize the logical method of metaphysics and idealistic history of Huntington’s theory of civilization conflict and its specific inference logic.The third is to criticize the bourgeois position of Huntington’s theory of civilization conflict.The fourth chapter mainly criticizes the viewpoint,logical method and position of the new theory of civilization conflict.The first is to criticize the viewpoint of the new clash of civilization,mainly including the narrow racist perspective on Sino US competition,erasing the fact of fierce ideological confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union,and his theory of China is full of cold war thinking and hegemonic color.The second is to criticize the logic method of causal,black or white and mechanical analogy.The third is to criticize the racism and bourgeois standpoint of the new theory.The fifth chapter discusses the new concept of civilization beyond the theory of civilization conflict,that is,the theory of civilization symbiosis.This part mainly includes the basic viewpoint of civilization symbiosis theory,the philosophical basis,the transcendence of civilization conflict theory and its significance.