A Study And Application Of The Method Of Historical Materialism Of Marxist Economics

Methodology is an important research topic of Marxist economics.Historical materialism is the soul of Marxist economics as a social science and historical science. The research on methods and principles of historical materialism of Marxist economics is not limited to general discussion, we need to deepen the cognition in use. The methodology of historical materialism is essentially a train of thought. Moreover, one of the purposes of methodological research is to use,we need to take the initiative to study.Historical materialism is practical materialism,dialectical materialism and radical materialism, the practice is the primary viewpoint of historical materialism,historical materialism explain the basic problem of philosophy and epistemology. historical materialism is not the dialectical materialism which is applied to the field of society and history. Materialism historical view is the most scientific historical view. materialism historical view as a new methodology in historical research is not religious dogma.The unity between materialism historical view and Marxist economics is inherent.History of the development of Marxist economics and historical materialism show that Marxist economics and historical materialism could reveal the secrets of human history,which lies in the inner unity. The inner unity is reflected in the dynamic history of development and the static features of subject. idealism historical view which embodied in western economics prove the inner unity from the opposite side.The methodology of historical materialism is the research methods of all the Marxist discipline including economics, it is an approach after the event. We could derive the methodology when the historical materialism in the study of Marxist economics reached maturity. It is impossible that Marx and Engels should use the the methodology of historical materialism in the initial economic study.But it had reflected a new historical view which was different from the idealism historical view of bourgeois economics. The historical view is a product of history. The fundamental starting point and thinking of the methodology of historical materialism of Marxist economics is"starting from the historical facts"and"starting from production practice". Other methods include the basic principles of historical materialism as methods, established social formation analytic methods,historical dialectics, economic category analytic methods, class analytic methods, etc.it can form some idea of fundamental analysis. The methodology of historical materialism is essentially a train of thought. The principles of historical materialism need to be studied by the methodology of historical materialism.Marxist economics method also includes some general abstract thinking method and specific thinking methods, such as induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis, the unity of history and logic, and so on, The history of the development of the methodology in Marxist economics and western economics show that the critical standard in accordance with abstract method is historical view. Some methods can not become a real scientific method or some scientifical method become meaningless because of the wrong view of history. Marxist economics research methods can be divided into three layers, the first layer is the method of historical materialism or historical dialectics of materialism, the second layer is the dialectical method in general thinking movement, the third layer is more specific approach in dialectical thinking movement. The first layer is the soul of the whole approach.We use and research the methods and principles of historical materialism in the range of the general political economics .The fourth chapter start from production practice and explore production of human society in history,study some category,such as productivity, mode of production,relations of production,ownership and so on.We divide human history into three stages named primitive society,feudal society and capitalist society according to social form of production and relations of production. We discuss principles of social change on the basis of historical facts. We show the dialectical relationship between the relevant principles. The fifth chapter analyse objects by established social formation analytic methods and show that the development and changes of objects is one side of social change. The specific research process and research finding on land state ownership, rural commune, cooperatives and stock company,see text.