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On The Interior Dimensions Of The Critique Of Marxist Politics Economics

Posted on:2017-03-23Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:D W ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:1109330485469044Subject:Basic principles of Marxism
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Through exploring the text of Marx, this dissertation aims to reveal the interior dimensions hid deep inside the critique of Marxist Political Economics, namely, from criticizing capital logic to constructing life logic. The significance of this research is revealing the interior prescription of human life, as well as the historical inevitability of the phenomenon that life logic is to exceed capital logic, in order to provide theoretical support for contemporary human social life.To begin with, the initial motivation and reality foundation of the critique of Marxist Political Economics have been investigated. After classifying the early texts of Marx, the initial motivation for why Marx turned to the critique of Marxist Political Economics is illustrated from three dimensions, respectively the confusion of material benefits in real life. On the meaning and value of human existence, as well as the inquiry into the Ontology of real life. Consequently, the paper elaborates that only by trafering to the research into Political Economics, can Marx tackle the confusion of material benefits in real life, as well as revealing the significance of human existence in real world and the essence of "economic facts" in real life of capitalism. Then the thesis elucidates the reality foundation of the critique of Marxist Political Economics, i.e., the dilemma of life logic:the capital logic is regarded as the top principle in the life of Capitalist society, along with the ideas that "individuals are dominated by abstraction", as well as that modem society is full of cruises. Thus it demonstrates how capital logic dominates real life and shadows life logic. In modern society, capital not only owns the power of "identity" itself, but also makes people to reject the real life, with the combined effort of rationality; leading to the forgetting of the real life, together with science and technology; bringing about the loss of real life, along with consumption. In this way, the separation of life logic and real life has been revealed.Furthermore, the essay elaborates the "dual contexts" in the critique of Marxist Political Economics, to be specific, the research into the critique of capital logic and the construction of life logic, as well as the theoretical purport of the critique of Marxist Political Exonomics. Based on Marx’s texts, the paper points out the starting point of capital logic being the analysis and critique of dissimilated labor, and the process being the critique for the conflicts between capital and labor in the capital production processes, the terminal being the formation and explanation of the surplus value. Thereby it shows the situation of real human life in the system of capitalist employment. Ultimately it elaborates how Marx revealed the inner contradiction of capital logic, specified the inevitability of the disintegration of capital logic. In the critique of Marxist Political Economics, "dual contexts’", the context of capital logic critique.does dominate, whereas the context of constructing life logic is hidden. The interweaving of dual contexts has presented the mutual unity of "breaking" and "establishing". The paper specifies that Marx criticized the theories of National Economics, clarified the essence of "economic facts" in real life, initiating from the theories of the critique of Political Economics. Followed by expounding that Marx established the scientific theories of labor value, that working is the essence of human, as well as labor emancipation, in the critic context of capital logic. Marx established that people’s working freely and voluntarily is the origin of life logic. It also demonstrated that Marx considered the alienation of human needs. Human needs are the nature of human and the reflection of life status, as well as the hierarchy of needs. Then it explained the process of how Marx established that human needs are life logic. The paper also demonstrates that according to Marx, in communist society, capital logic would collapse, labor would come first, and human could embrace free and all-around development, which is defined as the ultimate of life logic.In the following, the paper investigates into the theoretical purport of the critique of Marxist Political Economics. Firstly, it points out that Maher aimed at ending the "disenchantment" in the world of real life, which referred to the traditional metaphysics, eliminating the "dual dissimilation" of human, and anatomizing the civil society. Secondly, it clarifies that Marx intended to carve the ways of human emancipation, leading laborers to get rid of the constraint of capitalism, which based on dissimilated labor, implementing the free and voluntary activities and hence start communism movement, relying mainly on proletariat. Thirdly, it explains that Marx meant to solve the "Riddles of the Sphinx" of the historic development of human society, the generativity of the history of human society, the provisionally of capitalist society, and also the regularity of the historic development of human society.Eventually, the dissertation illuminates the epoch value of the research into the interior dimension. First, from the theoretical perspective, the epoch is calling for the return of the critic spirit of Marxist Political Economics. Confronted with the recent economic crises, the aphasia of western mainstream economics, along with the profound understanding for the issues appeared in real life, and the theoretical innovation for deepening the reforming of Chinese economic system. Marxist Political Economics theories are needed as a guide. Second, from the practical perspective, adhering to the critic spirit of Marxist Political Economics in order to practically consider and judge the existence of capital logic, to realize the harmonious society and the "people-oriented "value orientation beyond capital logic, the critical spirit is needed to guide us in choosing the life pattern in the economic development, so that the life logic and real life could be transformed from separation to unity.
Keywords/Search Tags:capital logic, life logic, interior dimension
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