Poverty And Its Modernity Discourse Expression

The author attempts to use historical materialism, to seek the historical origin traceability of poverty, poverty and the basic motivation of interpretation, based on further study of poverty in modern social discourse construction. The author thinks that poverty does not have the social historical universality, even with the material wealth does not have a direct and inevitable relations. It is not a natural existence of human society, but separated development result, the basis and motive is the social stratification and differentiation. Material product as the product of labor is the characterization of laborer oneself, not only having the physical attributes, but also containing a rich social attribute, poor visual material wealth natural scarcity, which is actually the natural scarcity into social scarcity. Deep expressions between people are not equal social relationship. Since industrial society, economic rationality dominating in the production of social life and economic life have become the center of social life. Material and production in the exchange get surplus value, having use value and exchange value becomes the goal of production, in terms of material wealth scarce to establish poverty view coming out. With the increasing wealth of goods, consumer choice more liberal pluralism, production and exchange in social and economic status during progressive consumed. Consumption has become the center of the modern economic life, between the human and the human the unequal social relations to contain in commodity sign relations and poor performance for the control of commodity symbols the inadequacy of ability.