| Social development is the important theme of social change, so, the issue about "social development" has been become the hot issue with which the economics, philosophy, sociology and other disciplines concern commonly. Marx's theory of social development has become the focus of the study of development philosophy. This paper focuses on the issue of evaluation scale of social development which is extracted from Marx's theory of social development, tries to expound the main Content of evaluation scale of social development, and analyzes them in order to explore contemporary values. To study the main content of evaluation scale of social development in Marx's opus, we must use a macro approach. First, we have to realize that evaluation scale of social development, as a comprehensive evaluation system, has characteristics of unity and diversity. The uniformity of evaluation scale of Marx's social development derived from the social practice; Social practice is the foundation of social development. Evaluation of social development, in the final analysis, must unify social practice. The diversity of evaluation scale of Marx's social development is the combination of scales; and the development of the productive forces is the basic yardstick of Marx' s evaluation scale of social development. The foundation of development of society is a great social productive force. If without greatly improved productivity and full material to satisfy the people's production and living needs, we cannot say the society have developed. Marx fully realized this problem; he set the development of the productive forces as the fundamental driving force for social development and the basic yardstick of evaluation of the social development extent. As society is the people's community, the goals and the ends of all social activities are for the people of society. This sense, productivity is the tool to realize the value of people. We can promote social development through the development of the productive forces to achieve the goal of free and comprehensive development of people. After all, the goal of the social development is to achieve freely and all-around development of people. Marx considered that the freely and all-around development of people were the scale of core of social development evaluation; he focused on the core issue of social development, and made the man in a prominent position in social development. However, social development is a systematic project that includes all sectors of society and all-encompassing, not only need to grasp its essence and the core of the evaluation scale, The all-round social development must also clarify upswing comprehensive evaluation standards social development in order to gain a fuller evaluation of the entire system. As a concept to measure the achievements of social development and social development level, Marx emphasized the importance of "civilization" in the evaluation of the role of social development. Considering productivity standards, the people's free and comprehensive development, the yardstick of civilization, they are come from the social practice. SO in the "contemporary" perspective, we have to correctly handle the thought of Marx's evaluation scale of social development, and then explore contemporary values. |