Marxian Risk Society Theory And Its Contemporary Meaning

Marxian risk society theory was one of the basic latitudes which was explained on the aspect of modernity. It had the wide thought room and theory capacity. Marx considered that risk society was one social seedtime on which crisis or threat induced by human practice activity began to take up dominant position in the context of globalization. In such society, the partial impact on human being has changed to the global risks which threat the survival and development of human being seriously. Grasping the logic method of Marxian risk society thought, we can work out the basic viewpoints of Marxian risk society thought. The first, the split of the human practice is the basis of the existence of the risk society. Practice is the bridge which contacts the subjective and the objective. It has two divided nature, including the creation and alienation. The second, the basic contradictions of capitalism is the operation logic of the risk society. With the involvement of the basic contradictions of capitalism, it breaks the balance of human freedom and practice risks. The destructive aspects are highlighted partially, thus form a global risk society. The third, the division and confrontation of private interests and public interests is the essence of the risk society. The global risk society is the result that the basic contradiction of capitalism expands and exchanges in the process of globalization. The basic contradictions of capitalism is the highest performance of the division and confrontation. The fourth, ultimate outlet of risk society was to destroy capital in order to realize human full-scale and free development. To eradicate the division and confrontation of the private interests and public interests, we should eradicate its highest form - the basic contradictions of capitalism. When the capital tend to lose their reasonableness, the global risk society will gradually dying out. The society will be going to a new one.In the contact of the global risk society, Marxian risk society thought has important value. The thought of Marxian risk society not only cultivate a new growth point which help us to deepen the study of Marxist philosophy, but also supplied scientific instruction on theory which helped us to perspective west theory of risk society fully. At the same time, contemporary China has emerged a number of "risk society" syndrome. It still offered support of important methodology which helped China to develop steadily.