Study On Engels' S Socialist Ideology In His Old Age

Socialist ideology as the core ideology of Marxism embodies the value pursuit of Marxism.After Marx's death,Engels proposed new cognition to the basic problems of socialist combining with new changes of capitalism,which was known as Engels' socialist ideology in his old age.This ideology suffered from the controversy and distortion for a long time,which affected the proper evaluations to Engels and scientific socialism.This dissertation systematically presents the main content and its mutual relations of this ideology,according to Engels' texts in his old age.This dissertation aimed to prove this ideology's theory nature and contributions and clarify the misunderstandings during the comparison,with the reference of basic idea of the scientific socialism co-founded by Marx and Engels.Engels in his old age revealed the new changes of the capitalism and thought over again about the destiny of capitalism combining with the theory and new reality of capitalism.He pointed out there were development space for capitalism,changing the assertion that capitalism will perish soon.He indicated that the new changes of capitalism did not change the basic contradictions of capitalism,which instead contained the trend of the socialism.Engels developed unified thought of the long-term destruction of capitalism and the inevitable result and deepened the ideology unity of Two Inevitability and Two Nevers.Engels revealed the path to achieve socialism accordance with the new changes of capitalism in his old age.On the premise of insistence to fundamental principles of proletarian revolution,Engels put forward the new strategy of parliamentary struggle according to the new conditions of the revolution,and lifted the worker-peasant alliance as an important condition for the proletariat to seize power and at the same time insisting on retaining the very strategy of violent revolution.Engels' strategy thoughts in his old age ran through the basic spirit of historical materialism,which was consistent with Marx's strategy thoughts,indicating that he did not deviate from the scientific socialism.Engels became more principled in the discussion of future society in his old age with his new understanding to the capitalism.In the development step,he started to emphasize the importance of the transition period from the angle of the complexity of the society transformation.On the basic characteristics,he only stressed that the principle of public ownership and the scientific method to predict the future of society,putting forward that socialist society is constantly changing and reforming.Engels in his old age developed the understanding of the long-term nature and complexity to realize socialism in the insistence of Marx's methodological principles and socialism objects in discuss future society.On the premise of sticking to scientific socialism,Engels keeping pace with the times boosted the theory innovation of socialism in his old age,showing the dialectical unity of insistence and development of scientific socialism,making a great contribution to the scientific socialism.From the contemporary perspective,Engels' s socialism in his old age provided theory support to scientifically analyze the reality and future of socialism,which helped to strengthen our faith to socialism.It provided a methodology to correctly knowand understand the socialism with Chinese characteristics,which will help us to enhance our self-confidence and self-conscious to practice socialism.