Marxist Conception Of Culture And Cultural Industries Development

"Cultural industry" was originally a critical point, as the development and using, the economic attributes become increasingly prominent. Cultural products are original, the productions are mechanical reproductions; cultural industries are popular, cultural consumption is special; cultural consumption not only has recreational functions but also has educational functions.Karl Marx discussed the human nature, understood culture basing on practice. The spiritual production theory and the distinction between productive labor and unproductive labor implied the theory of cultural industry. Frankfurt School inherited critical characteristics of Marxism, criticized the cultural industry, which is warning and reference for the development of China's cultural industry. Through reviewing the development process of China's cultural industry and the philosophical examination of the status quo, we know that under globalization, taking full advantage of market, insisting on the socialist core values, innovating national culture, exerting the advantage of feature and strengthening the macro control of our government, are the only way to boom China's cultural industry.