Marx's Life View And Its Contemporary Significance

Marx's Life View embodies Marx and Engels' general attitude,fundamental method and main ideas of looking at life.Marx's Life View includes his comprehensive understanding of the nature,main body,content,feature and the change law of life.Within the context of Marxism,life is the origin or root of human beings and human social existence and development.Their classical works,especially the part of describing life,contain abundant life philosophy and represent Marx and Engels' scrutiny and exploration of life in the process of human history development.Marx's Life View witnessed historical stages from sprouting,growing,scientific and systematic development and application to practice.It reveals the logic in life development and the practical nature of whole social life.Practice,the fundamental way of human existence,reconstructs the interpretation of the materialist nature of life world and drives social development.Practice defines people as the subject of general life,realistic life and ideal life.Thus it points the direction of human beings.More than that,practice organically unifies material life,political life and spiritual life;organically unifies nature,human beings,society;organically unifies past,present and future.Among all the aspects,Mode of production restricts the content and process of human life,decides the historical leap from lower stage to higher level.Practice also sets forth that life is the unification of time and space,static and movement,tradition and revolution.Marx's Life View,by criticizing capitalist life alienation and its sever results,provides scientific argument for ideal life.By the thorough remaking of capitalism in terms of life idea,life mode and life principles,Marx's Life View scientifically blueprints the communist ideal life,the essential nature,realistic form,realization way of ideal life.Marx's Life View sublates idealist and old materialist life view and starts scientific life values.By answering the questions of “ what is life and how to live”,it arouses people's desire for life liberation and establishes the communist way tohuman good life.Marx's Life View manifests our insight concern and scientific prediction of human life.Marx's deep thinking of proletariat escape of capitalist bondage and proletariat desire for better life is of important theoretical and practical values for constructing better life of socialism with Chinese characteristics.