Marx’s Ideas On Leisure And Contemporary Enlightenment

In the process of combing the Chinese and western leisure thoughts, this papermainly elaborates the criticism and transcendence of Marx’s leisure thought. Marx hasno discussed leisure distinctly, but in “criticizing old world" and "discover the newworld" metaphor the leisure, which unconscious state in Marx’s theory system, so thethought of the leisure is more obscure and complicated. In order to understand Marx’sleisure ideas very well, this paper has three aspects to be researched including thatbasic leisure rights and senior of leisure, labor, production, consumption, leisure andthe comprehensive development of people and leisure, the three parts can betterunderstand Marx’s leisure ideas.On the basis of criticize and absorb the ancient Greek thought and Westernsocialist ideology,and analysis of the problem in practice, and according to theforeseen in depth study of the social reality at that time and the impact of science andtechnology on human society, lead leisure ideal utopia to reality. Marx’s leisurethought is mainly implied in his thoughts of free time and comprehensive freedevelopment, and a better vision of the future ideal society. The core of the theoreticalsystem of Marxism is the full and free development of the person’s, free time is apremise of the leisure which the product of the development of productive forces andthe free development of the point value of free time. Leisure has its own value whichis just a kind of spend the way to free time.In the new social and historical conditions, Marx’s ideas on leisure should have anew connotation and realm. Marx’s leisure ideas construct a meaning world to explorethe concept of ultimate value for human society. We should closely integrate with thedevelopment and changes of the times, and adopt the attitude of advancing with thetimes to enrich and develop the thinking of Marx’s leisure. The thinking of Marx’sleisure and the existing thoughts of our country to build a people-centered socialistharmonious society are the same strain. It will play an important role in promoting theconstruction of socialist harmonious society in China through in-depth studying of theleisure theory of Marxism and drawing on the achievements of Europe and the UnitedStates in a right way,. In contemporary socialist society, the essence of labor has gonea fundamental shift, leisure is not only possible, but has become the forms of free timevalue, so the correct understanding of the leisure ideas of Marx, has importanttheoretical and practical significance.