The Study On The Third Configuration Thoughts Of Marx And Engles

The third configuration is a structural influence on productivity, production relations, production modes and social institutions which is exerted by social relations and social consciousness through constraining resource allocation. The study on the third configuration is very important in the economic system of Marx and Engles. To some extent, it also reveals another inclination and another clue in the development of their economics. They have advanced a theory of substance production, humankind production and spirit production. In their opinions, we may grasp the development course of human society by perceiving the movement of contradiction between the three productions. Marx has constituted a doctrine of three society conformations and a doctrine of five society conformations which is the former's concretion and specialization. As a matter of fact, he has constructed a dialectic relation in history dimention between market configuration, country configuration and society configuration. When Marx and Engles studied the third configuration theory, they have developed an analytical pattern of socialized man with focus on the economic actions of individuals and groups , which are made in a society and by a society. Their study on the capitalism production mode and other production modes, mainly on the theory of monetary, capital and labor, the theory of production, distribution and exchange, and the theory of economic functioning, has left behind much information of the third configuration thoughts. Marx's penetrating views about the third configuration in capitalism credit are of great value to help comprehend the functioning and historical evolution of capitalism economy. Marx and Engles pointed out that the power of community is one of the constrainning conditions of an institution change, which has established a sound base for upbuilding a normative analytical frame of socail power-economic efficiency in the study on institution changes. They also pointed out the impacts of social variables on the path evolution of insitution transition. The emergence of private ownership, the establishment of capitalism economic system and the transition to communism society are all impotantcases in analysis of the third configuration and macro-insitution changes. Engles' profound elaboration on a series changes of Teutonic land institution has set a good example to the reserch on functionings of the third configuration in micro-institution changes.