The Old Age Engels’s Social Development Thought Research

Engels as a great proletarian revolutionary teachers, has many unique views and perspectives, in thelater years for social development of his life he thinking about the theory of crystallization of SocialDevelopment. The social development thinking is an important part of his social development thinking,enrich and develop Marxist theory of social development is outstanding contribution to the theoreticaltreasure house of Marxism. Engels’s theory of social development, in-depth inquiry has importanttheoretical and practical significance. This paper attempts to use the comparative analysis and the unity oflogic and history, text analysis from the trend of development of capitalist society, the proletarianrevolutionary struggle strategy and society in the future development of three combed the writings ofEngels and the letters in the social development ideology, the purpose is to clarify the similarities anddifferences between Engels and social development thinking and its early years, thought in some respects,contact socialist practice experience, to clarify the misunderstanding of the theoretical circles some scholarsEngels thought, do to a certain extent, the root of the problem.This article is divided into four parts.The first part is an introduction. Described the theoretical and practical significance of the researchtopics in this article, the current theory community on the topics of the research status, under the premise ofthe basic principles and adhere to Marxist sociology, brief description of the basic viewpoints of the socialdevelopment thinking in his later years Engels, and then outlines the author studies the basic logic of ideas.The second part is about the old age of Engels theory of capitalist society. Engels live in an era ofcapitalist society has undergone tremendous changes, the rise of the second technological revolutioncapitalism powerful productivity. Of aging Engels keenly observed the emergence of monopolies and the rise of the stock company a new phenomenon of capitalism and the development of capitalism in the newphenomenon of economic, political, and social life made a lot of deep thinking, to draw some importantconclusion. Engels believed that the society on the economic emergence of monopolies and the rise of thestock company, on the one hand, market competition intensified, deepened the crisis of capitalism’sinherent contradictions; the other hand, the emergence of monopolies, especially the state monopolycapitalism and socialism development to create the conditions and material preparation, the mother ofcapitalism breeds the seeds of socialism. However, on the development trend of capitalism, Bernstein, whohas made a contrary judgment on the trends of development of capitalism and that capitalism does not likeEngels had predicted demise, and then fix the basic principles of Marxism. In this regard, we shouldcorrectly understand the thinking of Engels, to see the general trend of historical development of society,firmly believes that the inevitable demise of capitalism, the development of world history will inevitablymove towards communism.The third part is about the old age of Engels theory of the proletarian revolution. After the death ofMarx, Engels continues to guide the proletariat of all countries to carry out the communist movement.Engels in his later life in a capitalist society, the conditions change, the proletariat and its party activitiesshould also be changes in the international struggle for changing the situation, Engels flexible tactics ofstruggle of the proletariat adjustment, a positive and useful exploration of the proletariat present work.Engels believed that the victory of the proletarian revolution, first to get the support of the majority offarmers, attention to the issue of farmers; Secondly, we must cultivate proletarian intellectuals teams,strengthen publicity and education work. In the revolutionary tactics of struggle on the issue, Engels,according to the new changes of the struggle against the conditions and the revolutionary situation, adhereto the basic principles of the proletarian revolutionary struggle on the basis of flexibility to adjust the tactics of struggle, namely the use of parliamentary legitimacy of the struggle. However, in his later years Engels,Marx early amendments to the specific strategies, objectively lead to the contradiction between the basicprinciples of abstraction, and abstract principles and specific strategies. Bernstein, who seize thesecontradictions, the revisionist doctrine of "peaceful long into socialism", in essence, anti-Marxism.The fourth part is about the old age of Engels future of social theory. Engels’ study of aging ofcapitalist society in the late19th century new developments in the new situation, and remain convinced thatthe inevitable demise of capitalism, the inevitable victory of socialism, the general trend of socialdevelopment, he has not abandoned the ambitious goal of communism in the new historical conditions,Engels continued to uphold and develop Marxism, enrich and develop the understanding of scientificsocialism, and conducted a series of scientific ideas. Engels believed that the capitalist society into acommunist society, there must be a transition period, the dictatorship of the proletariat is the political formof the transitional period to adapt. Future social and economic forms of ownership to public ownership,Engels believes that the basic features of a socialist society, the future one of the basic principles of society,so the primary task of the transitional period is the socialist transformation of the ownership of the meansof production. Engels, the allocation of society in the future to determine the status of the social level ofdevelopment of productive forces and social organizations should be. Only in highly developed level ofproductivity, the future society in order to "free people of the Commonwealth. Engels on the vision of thefuture society is a scientific theory, but some scholars there is one-sided understanding of the ideas ofEngels or simple negative tendency, think Engels visionaries, gave up the belief in communism, however,from Engels thought study, we see that Engels’s theory is built on a scientific basis is an integral part of thescientific theory of Marxism Today, it is still an important guiding significance to our cause of buildingsocialism.