Marx's Dialectic And Its Contemporary Value

The ideology of dialectic has a long history. Among the ancient Greek philosophers, Herbalists is the founder of dialectic. Herbalists advanced the thought that everything is changing and developing, put forward the theory of antinomy and unification for the first time in European philosophy history. However, it was Plato who first used the conception of dialectic. Plato's dialectic referred to methods to obtain knowledge and seek for truth through cognition approaches.The second form of dialectic is from Kant's philosophy to Hegel's. Kant's incompatible thought had become the foundation of the active dialectic of Hegel. Hegel is the collector of modern philosophy. For the first time in the history of philosophy, he expatiated the general developing forms of dialectic thoroughly and systematically, promoted it as the universal law of thinking, and established the strict and encyclopedic dialectic outline. Though the essence of Hegel's dialectic is platonic and should be criticized, it is at least the only material in existence that can be used. The major content of Hegel's dialectic can be summarized as follows: (1) The three developing stages of Absolute spirit of affirmation,negation,negation of the negation.(2) Circle type development or logics process of the concept, category. (3) Anything is the unity including some regulations that different with themselves, and anything is contradictory in themselves. (4) The dialectical sport of the concept is a conversion and leap of nature. (5) The negation of the negation is a concrete path of the circle type development for the system. (6) The dialectic is a process that person's cognition, thought improve from abstract to concrete. (7) Hegel's dialectic realizes the unity of epistemology and ontology.Marx use new materialism which is called practical materialism toppled down "the ontological basic" of Hegelian dialectic, and peeled off the mystery of it, then understand the dialectic from the aspect of relationship which is based on thepractical corpus and object interact and contradictory and unification, and compared with traditional view it make dialectic obtain great persuasion. Marx practical dialectic general characteristics are those: It is the unity of the course of people practice of theories, from the this aspect Marx's dialectic is the objective dialectic, It is the historical dialectic; It is the dialectic of criticizing and revolutionary. It is the epistemology and logics,one is the same. Marx applies dialectic to political economy to criticize, has obtained very great success, have set up logic of Capital. The logic of Capital is a basis that we understand Marx's dialectic.The dialectic of the Capital is the self-conscious carrying through of Hegel's dialectic after Marx's natural reform. Therefore, the dialectic of Capital and the dialectic of Hegel's Logics are in common, both of them reflect the following thoughts: From abstract to specific way of the dialectic of cognition; The logic is inferring way of the category; The way of unifying the logics and history; The method of the negation of the concept negation; The method that analysis and synthesize; And so on. Marx's dialectic have three important meanings at least in contemporary. First, it provides contemporary people with scientific and reasonable thinking way of mastering themselves and the world. Second, it opens the door of knowing about the world history and globalization. Third, providing contemporary people with the tools and manners of criticizing society ,so as to master the logics of " two inevitable", and the development law of Chinese characteristic socialism.