Weitling 's Thought Of Communism And Its Influence On Marx

The development of human history is within inheritance. The birth of outstanding theory is always based on the achievements of predecessors, so dose Marx’s theory development. When wonderingwhere Marx’s theory come from, we always think of German classical philosophy, British political economics and French utopian socialism or think of Hegel and Feuerbach. Although these are the main sources of Marxism, they are not all the ideological materials. There is a transitional stage during the period that Marxism turned to Communism and Scientific Socialism was created. There are also some transitional roles during that stage and Wihelm Weitling is one of the most important person. He played the key role between utopian socialism and proletariat socialism and combined Marxism with reality better.Wihelm Weitling is called “the founder of German Communism”. He was influenced by the thoughts of Baboenf, Saint-Simon and Fourier and thus publicized Communism. He is the connecting link between utopian socialism and scientific socialism. His ideological system and practice activities influenced the development of German Communism deeply. Weitling’s penetrating criticism to the capitalist society and beautiful imagination to the future society flicker the spark of truth. Marx absorbed some of Weitling’s good thoughts critically during the process that his ideological system grew scientific and mature constantly. All those above provide sufficient ideological materials for Marx to change from revolutionary democracy to communism and to create scientific socialism. This thesis is aim to analyze Weitling’s Communism using the research methods as history comparison, text comparison and ideological system comparison and to dig out some reference points that Marx brings into his own thoughts and to understand Marx’s transcendence towards Weitling’s thoughts.. Furthermore, the thesis also provides a new and detailed view for the research of early ideological source of Marx.This thesis totally includes five parts.Part One: Introduction. Make a brief introduction on the meaning of paper thesis selection, research status and research methods.Part Two: Wihelm Weitling’s whole life and the history of his thoughts. Make research on the formation conditions of Wihelm Weitling’s thoughts, specifically including his whole life, objective and subjective formation conditions and the theory origin.Part Three: Wihelm Weitling’s Communism System. Introduce Weitling’s main thoughts, specifically including his social historical outlook, the criticism towards pathological capitalism and the imagination towards democratic communism family union.Part Four: Marx’s absorption and transcendence towards Weitling’s thoughts. Make analysis on Marx’s affirmation and negation towards Weitling’s ideological system during the period that Marx started to turn to Communism and started to create scientific socialism mainly from the aspects of text and idea. At last, make analysis on why Weitling’s thought has a kind of daydream and fantasy; research about Marx’s transcendence towards Weitling’s thoughts and realize the scientific aspects of Marx’s socialism.Part Five: Conclusion. Mainly discuss about the significance of Marx’s affirmation and negation towards Weitling’s thoughts, the attitude we should hold on Marx and the practical significance of this thesis.