Analysis Of Marx's "German Ideology "in The Social History

Marx's historical materialism is a great discovery, which reflects the originality of Marxist philosophy, it's an important breakthrough, compares with the previous philosophical viewpoints. The book "German Ideology" has an important position in the history of Marxist philosophy, and the section about the conception of history, is an important part of historical idealism of Marxist. Marx began his historical materialism course from this book.When we discuss the historical views of Marx, it's inevitably to discuss the original four factors of history proposed by Marx. We could not understand his views of history unless we understand these four factors. The four factors are: the foundation of history, historical events, historical continuity and productivity methods. Meanwhile, we should notice the starting point of history, the individual of real life. Human is animal, human is more than an animal, so what's the difference between people and the other animals? "German Ideology" tells us that, "When people start production their own subsistence, that is, their bodies taken by the organization decides this step, the people themselves begin to distinguish themselves and the animals." The distinction between humans and animals is that human could produce their own subsistence, not only we could think. When human is producing, it already combines the thinking and body. It does not like purely action of animal, not only for food, but the creation of life. That's the reason why human is human, only during producing, we are beyond the level of the animals, to be a wise presence. There are two things about the dynamic theory of history, the first is that the contradictions between the relations of production and the productive forces is caused by social division of labor, the contradictions become the power of historical progress, the second is class struggle.Finally, it's important to study the Marx's social history in the new era, especially for the integration of traditional and modern, the establish of our spiritual beliefs.