The Contemporary Thinking On Marx's Three Stages Theory Of Social Development

Based on the theory of Marx's three stages of society development---people common body stage, material dependence stage and individual overall development stage, the thesis anew the society development theory of Marx on the premise of Marxism revolution change.The first chapter is mainly on the formation process of Marx's social development theory. When working in Rhine Newspaper, Marx began to get in touch with the social reality and engaged the revolution activities against feudalism directly. As a result, he gave up the pure theory research and changed to the reality political problems. In the struggle practice, Marx found that it was not the Idea called by Hegel but hierarchy and economic benefit that played a role in the reality life, which changed Marx from an idealist to a materialist and from a democrat to a communist. During the process of change, Marx revealed the problems of production activities and human alienation in 1844 Manuscript on Economics and Philosophy, and pointed out that human's free and all-round development would come true only when labor became human's essential activity. In German Ideology, Marx criticized the understanding to human of traditional philosophy----which either regarded human as a concept from his abstract essence, or regarded human as a common not different with other creature from his organisms essence. In Marxism philosophy, human became real and historical from abstract human, and so did the principal part of the social development. In the economics research of 1857-1859, Marx probed into the factors that influenced the social development, and then he advanced the famous three stages theory of human social development. In brief, Marx thought that time was restricted by capital, productive force level and labour development degree. In the great works Capital, Marx revealed the relation between economy and human's liberation, and put forward an important concept---free time as the prerequisite of human liberation.Marx's three stages theory of human social development is a great thought revolution in the history of human social development. The second chapter goes further into the revolution change of Marx's social development theory. The aim of Marx's social development theory was to...