Two Kinds Of Cultural Repudiation Consciousness Of The New Marxism In England

Historicist Marxism and Structuralist Marxism in England are two famous current Western New Marxism doctrine schools. The representative personages of the two schools are separately Edward Thompson and Perry Anderson. In the research, two schools succeeded the repudiating spirit of Marxism, and studied the history and present through the culture plane on Marxism fundamental rule. The most members of Historicist Marxism are famous historians. Have succeeded the empiricism tradition in England, They valued history fact and the experience stuff, and emphasized man's subjective consciousness and dynamic role. The most of members of the Structuralist Marxism are the editors of New Left Review, who mostly joined in the magazine in the 1960's. In the Process of importing Europe mainland theories to England, they were willingly to repudiate and succeed these theories, especially French structuralism theory. At the same time, the Europe mainland rationalism tradition had an unaware effect on them, so that they valued theory constructing even more, and argued that it is important to hold the community entirely. Moreover, since the fact that New Left Review is always the banner which guide the left theory and mass movement in Europe and America, the Structuralist Marxism has been having the strong consciousness to combine theory with practice. The two schools have diverged of the views seriously since 1960's and debated over a long time. Finally, the conversation has been holding between the two schools through the debate, and they integrated themselves into Marxism. The main role of this thesis is to arrange and analyze the theory debate and conversation between Thompson and Anderson. It is helpful to us to inquire into the learning distinguishing feature and the development venation of the two schools. And it can supply the reference in the process of our understanding Marxism correctly.