The Concept Of Production In Marx's Philosophy

This dissertation attempts to prove that Marx's revolution in philosophy is a gradual process which begins with the concept of gegenstaendlichkeit(objectiveness) and ends in the concept of material production. There are two dimensions to Marx's concept of production, namely productivity as natural dimension and praxis(or practicality) as social dimension, that can be both based upon the concept of gegenstaendlichkeit. This concept of production is the basic content of Marxism philosophy. As natural dimension of production, productivity relates to the philosophical content of becoming, arche, etc. As social dimension of production, praxis relates to the species consciousness or general consciousness of human. Then material production is the dialectical union of nature action and human action, as well as that of productivity and practicality. The process of material production is the dialectical movement of the mode of production, which is understood by Marx as a historical process that human comes into being from nature through nature action and human labor, and whose general result is the birth of a general and free mode of production, i.e. the birth of socialism mode of production.