Analysis Of Marxist Philosophy And Modern

In the complicated society today, various social trends of thoughts and academic controversies compete for people's attention, among which the issue of modernity becomes the most widespread concern. From the theoretical point of view, it prevails in such fields as philosophy, literature, political science, sociology, economics, and law and so on. Modernity is now one of the core terms which are most frequently used in the contention of many theories. From the practical perspective, with the economic and cultural conflicts between countries caused by the development of global economic integration, judging the value of modernity has become an important issue in the social development.Because the issue of"modernity"exists in every aspect of modern life, it displays the features of multi-sidedness, complexity and the uncertainty. We seem to be at a loss when we attempt to address and explore modernity thoroughly, since the ideas in front of us are still separate and lacking in conformity. In the study of the thoughts of modernity, it is of crucial importance to reflect on modernity from the theoretical, practical, historical, realistic, comparative and integrated multi-dimensional point of views.This essay firstly discusses the notion of"modernity", and analyzes and compares the different ideologists'understandings of"modernity", regarding that"modernity"is a very inclusive cultural category. It is not only theoretical, but also practical; not only factual, but also valuable; not only certain, but also moving, therefore it is very hard for us to define it from single dimension.Generally speaking,"modernity"indicates the basic principles and historical time of capitalism since the Renaissance, especially the Enlightenment. Speaking from its connotations, it is an existing quality and pattern of society, marked by the Enlightenment ideologically, by French Revolution politically, and free market economically. Marxism and modernity has close relationship, and Marx was the first one who mastered and got the overall insight of the modernity in the western society, and of which he even gave an accurate description. As a believer of the Enlightenment and an advocate of modernity, Marx praised and fully affirmed the historical function of modernity. As a critic of the modernity, he made an acute observation and revelation of the crises and difficult position.Marx was not satisfied with merely criticizing the superficial phenomena of the modern crises in the western society. He deeply explored the essence of the crises in order to find out the root causes for the crises. Through the overall analysis of the capitalist society, his social critical theory rose from the abstract moral value criticism to the scientific political sentence, and got into the elaborate empirical analysis, so that it became an abundant and profound system of critical social thoughts. Marxism's criticism of the modernity was for the reconstruction of modernity, and it was confident for the future society.Proposing the relationship between Marxism and the modernity has special significance in the process of China's reform and opening up and the social reformation. Although Chinese modernity and modernization are influenced by the western society and with which they shares some similarities, Chinese modernity and modernization are quite different from the western modernity. The most important thing is Marxism'shaping function in the development of Chinese modernity, and its guiding function in China's modernization process.In today's era of globalization, it is necessary to construct the socialist modernity with Chinese characteristics in all aspects, including material civilization, spiritual civilization and the political civilization, under the guidance of Marxism. This is a great task for today's Marxists. We should uphold the Marxist theoretical quality of advancing with the times and manifest our modern revolutionary moral character, thus the Marxism can maintain the exuberant vitality and play an inestimable role in the enterprise of China's socialist construction.