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Marx And Engels' Analysis About Capitalism

Posted on:2005-07-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y E DuanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2156360125462432Subject:Marxist theory and ideological and political education
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Marx and Engels lived in capitalist society, but their attitudes to capitalism were not like its worshippers doing their utmost to defend for the bourgeoisie, and also not like the Utopian socialist cursing it blindly and scolding it severely. They analyzed the emergence and the development of capitalism objectively, concretely and historically. They regarded it as their historical mission to bring to light the laws and the trend of the capitalism's development, which guided the proletariat's revolutionary struggle. So, as for the study of Marx and Engels' analysis about capitalism, we cannot only limit in the angle of its revolutionary character. We should dig up something of science among them.In order to understand capitalism, we should appraise the position of capitalism firstly. Marx and Engels announced that the capitalism is a kind of development of productive forces, and is an expression of society progressing. Therefore, Marx and Engels firstly stressed that industry capitalists defeating feudal landlords and industry defeating agriculture were an advance of history. They point out: "one civilization facet of capital is the method and condition that it squeezes surplus labor, contrast with forms such as slave system, serf system and so on. They are more useful to the development of productive forces and human relations in society, and are more useful to the creation of the various essential factors of more senior new form." That is to say, the advance of capitalism shows not only at the aspect of the productive forces, but also at the aspect of thought, civilization, law and political system, etc. So, Marx said: "It is true that collapse of ancient world makes us unwell, but seeing from the historical viewpoint, we have a right to sing together with Geodthe: 'the pain is the source of happiness, why should we feel sad because of the pain?'"But capitalism still is not a perfect form of development of mankind society, because its history advancement is better relatively than feudal serf system.Marx and Engels pointed out that the capitalism is one substituting for another kind of systems. Those systems exploiting wage labors are based on the private ownershipfoundation. "The capital arrived at this world, with dirty things and blood dripping from every pore." The development history of capitalism is a rare history which externally invaded, and it brought infinite sufferings and pains to people all over the world. At initial stage of the development of capitalism, capitalists' cruel exploitation and extraction to workers are rare in mankind's history. Marx and Engels described tin's status with "breaking the ones and sucking the marrow". Marx and Engels analyzed capitalism society's fundamental contradiction, namely the contradiction between social production and private ownership of productive material. It is the contradiction that leads to the more and more serious economic crisis of the capitalism. The economic crisis indicates that production relations of capitalism have not met with the needs of productive forces, and have become the shackles of the development of productive forces. As a result, the triumphant of proletariat and the destruction of capitalist class are equally unavoidable. The capitalism is the social pattern constantly to develop and change, and so our understanding of capitalism should be deepen accordingly and never remain at the same level. After the 1970's, capitalism grew from free competition to monopolizing state, Marx and Engels paid attention to those phenomena very sharply, and thoroughly studied the new change of capitalism production and capital form, especially gave careful research and concern to the taking shape of joint-stock company. At the same time, Marx and Engels also paid attention to the adjustment of capitalism that caused by the changed form of manufacture and capital, based on this, they also adjusted to the struggle tactics of the proletariat, especially Engels of old age poured into mass painstaking care to this .He kept admonishing the socialism party...
Keywords/Search Tags:Marx and Engels, analysis of capitalism, limitation, value
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