Marxist Historical Determinism Double Attribute

As a philosophic problem, historical determinism has always been very much disputed. In about whether Marxism social history theory is a historical determinism, the academic circles also have all sorts of different opinions. To make a scientific reply to this question, the key is to make clear how Marxism regards the relationship between the subjects' alternatives and the rule of historical development. This problem essentially is a subjects' survival problem, extremely important, the most difficult and of most different meanings in the historical philosophy. It also need thoroughly discussion and is a foundational, fundamental, advanced and significant problem. Before the establishment of historical materialism, the historical philosophers all had not been able to jump out the pattern of the historical idealism finally. Only historical materialism which is established by Marx and Engels, has first correctly solved this problem in the foundation of the view of scientific practice and organically unified the subjects' alternatives and the determination in historical development. However, even after the establishment of historical materialism, the argument about the relations between the historical determination and the subjects' alternatives is far from being ended. There is still some wrong tendency, such as mechanism, fatalism, self-willed, and historical idealism, and so on. After reform and open policy, all sorts of one-sided understanding still often display in our country.Facing this kind of condition, this article utilizes the method of Marxist dialectical thought, based on Marxist classic works, guards the basic principle of historical determinism, affirms the determination in historical development, discusses the subjects' alternatives with emphasis, has promulgated the fact that the historical determination and the subjects' alternatives are intrinsic unified in Marxist social conception of history, proposed the new concept of Marxist historical determinism' s dual attribute, call the historical determination and the subjects' alternatives Marxist dual attribute in the Marxist historical determinism. This regarding has the major significance in going out of the dispute, walking to the new beginning in the research of Marxist societal conception of history.