The Study Of Marx's View On Civil Society

Civil society is a genuine and typical west type concept. In the course of development of the modern political ideology in the west, people's understanding of this concept went through a course of developing. At first, for the natural law philosophers , civil society was regarded as antagonistic to natural state but equal with political country; for Hegel, civil society was developed into a concept that set against the political country but depended on the political country in essence; Marx regarded civil society as a concept independent from but determined the political country; people such as Gramsci and Habermas expanded civil society to independent social cultural field then.Hegel ended the theory idea in traditional philosophy that civil society and political country are equal. He striped concept of civil society from the concept of the political country for the first time. His explanation of the nature, the characteristic and basic principle of civil society, his analysis of the relation between civil society, family and nation set up a milestone in the theory history of civil society, pointed out for us the conception of history of materialism in the dark, and has become the breakthrough point that Marx created the materialist conception of history.Civil society is a basic category in the Marx and Engels' work, Civil social theory is an important component of Marxism theory ,too. Marx has inherited Hegel's social theory of citizen critically. His judgment that civil society is the social organization developed from production and association directly subtly delineated the essence of civil society, and overally grasped all the material association in the market economy society. For Marx, the essence of all social materialrelation is economic association in market.People such as Gransci and Habermas etc. regarded independent corporations and their activities among public field as basic composition of society, thus added new theory content to the concept of civil society and it is a modern expansion of Marx 's social theory of citizen society.