From Macropolitics To Micropolitics

With the developments of postmodern society, consumer society or later-capitalism, there's a political trend in every field of society and individul. That is,there is a change direction------from macropolitics to micropolitics in the 1960s.The reazons of the transformation stem from two aspects. The imperfection of modern macropolitics is internal motive forces of the transformation. Rationality and subject which are foundations of modern macropolitics are rationalism presume.The rationalism presume brings about not only rational force,but also realistic bloody force. Modern macropolitics becomes irrationality, and then falls into troubles. Deconstructionism thinkers prefer daily life, such as the human body, desire, accidental factors, emotion, etc. to rationality on thinking of possibilities of politics. The developments of postmodern society bring about changes of contents and forms of modern macropolitics.Globalization challenges absolute soverign of a state, country and politics are on the way to"end"; Consumer society makes consumer, science and technology turn into new kinds of ideaology. Ideaology and politics are becoming increasingly"non-politicalization"; The expansion of new middle class and the decline of the working class make social life increasingly"get rid of classnization and revolutionization". All these mentioned above question the exposition systems about"Grand Narrative"of modern macropolitics.Social life shows indifference towards macropolitics. Deconstructionism thinkers begin to focus political practice on daily life, and think about the possibblity of postmodern micropolitics. New Social Movement becomes direct fuse of postmodern micropolitics. Deconstructionism thingkers are promoted to introspect Mrxism and modern macropolitics by the movement. Then they directly draw conclutions of theories of postmodern micropolitics.There are three changes of the theme of the transformation. First, it is from monopower of a coutry to pluralistic micropower. As the kernel conception of modren politics, power takes root among the center of systems of economy and politics, and is considered as an organ of dominition. From the microangle, deconstructionism thingkers think that power is a kind of relation and a criss-cross net, not a substance that can be possessed; Power spreads all over the places without any core, possesses plural nature, ability of production and unsubjectivity; The power in daily life is more important than that of a state; Powers of knowledge, power of life, power of media and power of symbols are all micropowers. Second, it is from resistance of classes to plural microresistances. Resistance of deconstructionism is a kind of partial microresistance, not a large scale revolution among the classes. So deconstructionism criticizes conceptions of modern politics, such as the working class, class struggle and revolution. They resist state thought that serves coutries, approve of nomadic thought which fights against traditions; They fight against domination of symbols; They think that desire is not only main strength of resistance politics, but also a prerequisite to revolution. So class politics should be instead of desire micropolitics. Third, it is from identity politics of"Grand Narrative"to difference politics of micronarrative. Diffrence politics is a kind of typical form and an important dimension of postmodern micropolitics. It is based on"difference"and the concept of being against"Grand Narrative", going round the sense of plural politics; It fights against constructing identical political philosophy like"The Enlightenment Rationality", and emphasizes plural political value. Deconstructionism thinkers explore"difference"in order to expose the domination of rulers and their real stratagems. Meanwhile, they also advocate that the peripheries which are oppressed and eliminated from authority and comman normals should be liberated.Although deconstructionism political philosophy and Marxism both criticize metaphyisical rationality and capitalism modernity and both of them are very similar, deconstructionism thinker don't approve Mrxism entirely. That is, the approval is very limited and kept at a distance. Their real intention is to deconstruct Mrxism. But Mrxism is based on not only critique of political-economy, but also critique of economic basis and social system of capitalism, and Marxist exert themselves in overthrowing the rule of capitalism, fulfil free and liberation of mankind. Therefore, Marxism has thorough revolutionary character. On the other hand, deconstructionism makes great efforts in criticizing capitalism official civilization. They don't want to overthrow capitalism systems at all. So there are essential distinctions between them. These distinctions are just shortcomings of deconstructionism politics. Therefore, deconstructionism political philosophy will not exceed Marxism, let alone deconstruct Marxism. Although deconstructionism politics challenges Marxism, Marxism will never be out-of-date because of contemporary capitalism. On the contrary, Marxism is still foundations which guide us to go forward. The concept of politics shouid be comprehended not only by rationality, revolution and liberation, but also by the whole society(concluding daily life). Politics grows with changes of society. Politics can be used in a broad sense, and it consists of macropolitics and micropolitics. For this reazon, macropolitics and micropolitics should be connected, but this connection does't mean that they are treated as equals. Macropolitics is also main mould of political philosophy at present. So is in China. The great changes of structures of social stratum in China belongs to politics. They posseess political nature. This is the enlightenment which deconstructionism politics gives us.