Research On The Information Civilization From The Perspective Of Historical Materialism

The information activities generally exist in the fields of nature,the human society and the human thinking.With the development of people's production,the life and the scientific practice,people's ability is also increasing to understand and deal with the information.After the Second World War,the development of the information revolution represented by the computer and Internet technology makes information activities gradually become an activity that affects the way of the human production,the life style and the way of thinking.The Information resources have become an important strategic resource and the social wealth in the present era.With the development of the global information and the all-round shaping of the human society,it is necessary to control the "information civilization" concept to describe and depict the outline of the development of the information age from a kind of social activity as a new form of the civilization of the whole society.Judging the information civilization with the historical materialism,we accurately identify the mechanism of the information activity to shape the human society and construct the theory system of the information civilization,which are not only the needs of meeting the challenge of the information civilization,but also the need of advancing the construction of the information civilization scientifically.It is also the need of the development of Marxist theory in the information age.The information civilization is a progressive state in the process of transforming the objective world and subjective world through the information production mode.The essence of the information civilization is a shared civilization based on the mutually beneficial development of the social subjects.The foundation of the information civilization is the modern information science and technology and the core is the information production mode.The external embodiment is a standardized and theoretical information society governance system formed by people in information production,dissemination and consumption.The development of the information civilization shows three basic social functions: the sublation of the traditional industrial civilization,the multiplier of the all-round development of the society and the return of the essence of human beings.It is an important practice form of the information civilization that the information technology shapes the traditional productive forces form and then brings up the information productivity.With the penetration of the information technology to the whole society's material production,the political production and the spiritual production,the human society has realized the transformation from the industrial society to the information society as a whole.The information society is a technical social form constructed in the information logic.The information society is not a society that can achieve the inclusive development as soon as it appears.The informatization and the intellectualization of the labor mode just extends the labor function of people,and can not fundamentally change the employment relations of the labor under the condition of the private ownership.The "unmanned factory" and the "free laborer" do not exist without the human being and the material production.The more the informatization and the intellectualization develop,the more the basic position of the human living labor is prominent in production and it is more necessary to establish the public ownership of the means of the production.The contradiction between the advanced information productivity and the backward production relations,between the superstructure in the industrial age and the economic foundation in the post industrial era is the two basic contradiction of the information society.In a long period of time,the state remains the main body of the international conduct.There is still the class and the class struggle in the information society.Usually,it only displays in the way of the information.It is the people for the main body of the practice of the information civilization.Information civilization based on the information technology not only shapes the information people who live in information,but also brings about the spectacular economic,the political and the cultural migration in the history of mankind.Cyberspace has become a new space for the development of the human economy and society.Under the condition of the information civilization,the people create the material wealth,the spiritual wealth and realize the universality,the participation and the authenticity of the social transformation.The development mechanism of the information civilization is reflected in the comprehensive infiltration of the information resources to the process of the labor and the form of the shared economic activities and the information civilization thinking.As the most widely used information resource aggregation,the production and the use platform,the Internet has become the most representative of the social public labor material.As a tool of labor,it is not in general to determine whether the Internet belongs to the private ownership or to the social ownership.With the information and intelligence of the whole social labor mode,"making information" is more significant than "making goods".Data will become the core resources of the social production.The characteristics of the interaction of the data value determine the historical trend of the data resources being the social and public resources.The workers with information are the main workers in the information society.Based on the continuous emergence of the information technology based shared economy and the continuous growth trend of the concept of "using without occupancy",it contains a new civilization gene that transcends industrial civilization and builds on the basis of collaborative sharing.The rise of the way of thinking of the information civilization and its continuous application to the process of the social production and the life are the important reasons for the continuous development of the information civilization.The information thinking,the Internet thinking and the big data thinking are the three ways of thinking in the development of information civilization.The capitalist application of the information technology has realized the transmutation of the industrial capitalism to the information capitalism,and then formed the information imperialism on the basis of the industrial imperialism.Information imperialism is a new stage of the development of the monopoly capitalism.It not only tries to monopolize the material resources globally,but also tries to monopolize all kinds of the information,the knowledge and the other non-material resources of the human society.Although the capitalism application of the information technology can alleviate the basic contradictions,the capital logic determines,under the conditions of capitalism,the development of the information capital and the capital information will inevitably bring about the information gap between the larger and more intense social differentiation,which will inevitably lead to the capitalism political economic and social crisis deeply in a certain period of time and within a certain range.Information imperialism is a new stage of the development of imperialism.The development of the information imperialism,on the one hand,shows that it still holds a new space for the productive forces.On the other hand,it is gradually showing the signs of the decadence.Information imperialism has created a realistic foundation for the world's socialist revival.The continuous development and application of the information technology represents the new production of the new productive forces.The socialist application of the information technology coincides with the need of socialized production development,forming the mutual constructive relationship between the advanced social system and the advanced productive forces.Under the situation of the global information society governing the discourse power and the dominant power game,we can scientifically distinguish the root and social attribute of the current information technology alienation,emancipate and develop the information productivity,and consciously adhere to the people centered development thought and strengthen the management of the information capital,which is not only a long way to face the socialist construction in the information age.The term task is also an important way to enhance the essential interests of the socialism and constantly highlight the superiority of the socialist system.In general,the development of the global information society provides more substantial subjective and objective conditions for the renaissance of the world socialism.The highly developed information civilization and the general labor replaced by the artificial intelligence make the pursuit of meaning become the existing way of the future people.The sociality of human beings and the nature of "class" determine that the artificial intelligence will not transcend the social and the historical status of human beings.People make themselves “people” in the "information sharing",and will also enhance the "co-sharing" of the social production mode in the "information sharing".With the rapid development and the wide application of the information technology,such as the big data,the cloud computing,the block chaining,AI and so on,the new production mode of the social material and the new social relationship based on information technology are quietly formed.In the view of the historical materialism,the information activity is a social activity that unifies the law of the human social practice and the unity of purpose.To maintain the critical spirit of the information technology and scientifically grasp the interactive relationship between the scientific and technological activities and the social civilization and progress is helpful to achieve the value dimension of the information civilization to promote the free and comprehensive development of human beings.The information civilization with the core concept of the synergy,the opening and the sharing is the same as the degree and the value direction of the Communist civilization.Only if the developed information productivity is possessed by the whole society and the working people,the advanced technology civilization and the advanced socialist system can scientifically reveal the true dawn of civilization.The science and technology revolution represented by information technology and the perfectly productive forces created by the industrial revolution have continuously strengthened the historical irrationality of the capitalism and the historical inevitability of the communism.A profound understanding of the essence of the information civilization and the trend of its development will help to enhance the theoretical confidence and the road confidence for people to realize the communism.Strengthening information civilization construction fundamentally helps to improve the essential interests of the socialism.