Study Of The Neo-marxism Cultural Theory In Britain

The new Marxists in England pioneered the study of world culture,achieved fruitful results of cultural theory,and made outstanding contributions to cultural studies.There are many British new Marxist cultural scholars who have profound and abundant ideas,this article cannot cover all of these thinkers and their theoretical achievements,but select the representative thinkers of Marxism,and their cultural theories for the research.The four British new Marxist cultural scholars mainly including Raymond Williams,E.P.Thompson,Stuart Hall,Terry Eagleton are relatively concentrated on.The study of British new Marxist theory of culture is necessary to carry out a detailed study on the basis of the macroscopic grasp of the doctrine.Firstly,from the perspective of the history of Marxism development to inspect its theoretical background and political context,review its theoretical status and its development course.The early propagation of Marxism in Britain did not lead to the full grasp of Marxist theory by the British Marxists,the theory lag behind the reality,unable to explain the reality.In addition,in 1950s the world socialist movement suffered a setback,the crisis of socialism which prompted the British Marxist to investigate basic theory of Marxism,especially the basic principle of historical materialism,in order to open up a new perspective of Marxism studies in the Britain,expand the criticism of the capitalism,and t explore the new strategy of socialist revolution.Secondly,on the basis of the macro grasp the theory of new British Marxist theory appearance,positioning,theoretical horizon,transit to study on the origin of the new British Marxist cultural theory thoughts and development process of research.The British new Marxist cultural studies gradually generated from the classic Marxist writers thought,the British native culture tradition,especially learn from the western Marxist thought,gradually generated by the British political environment and cultural environment.It has gone through several stages of theory and paradigm transformation,such as culture,structuralism,cultural hegemony and engagement theory.The core part of the study of the British new Marx cultural theory focuses on the understanding of the culture essence,and the nature and meaning of various cultural forms.Williams and Thompson understood the meaning of culture from the Materialism position and established the theory of cultural materialism,culture is seen as a holistic way of life.On the basis of drawing on the theoretical resources of linguistics and structure,Hall understood the meaning of culture from the perspective of semiotics.that culture is a symbolic representation,and is also refers to the practice.Eagleton further deepen the political significance of culture.Based on the view of culture,they creatively understand the functions of life,revolution and political from Working class culture,mass culture,and subculture.And believe that the emergence and development of these cultures is an important force to realize socialism.The systematic and in-depth study of the new British Marx cultural theory is to better understand its theoretical significance and practical value,especially the significance of contemporary Chinese cultural construction.Along with the economic globalization,the global circulation of cultural exchanges and increasingly deepened Communication,that make the world culture construction often face some phenomena and problems,such as by the prevalence of consumer culture,popular culture and subculture of ethical questions,aesthetic,cultural identity issues,etc.The Deep reflection and outstanding research on the cultural phenomena of the British New Marxism,Especially the analysis of cultural subjectivity,provides us a reference how to guide the socialist cultural construction with quality improvement of People's Daily life of the mind to carry out and implement the cultural strategy of"people-oriented"in the cultural construction.