Studying Marital Freedom From The Marxist Perspective Of Philosophy Of Right

As authorities of German classical philosophy, Kant and Hegel used to put marriage issue in the view of philosophy of right. But with a decline in philosophical school of law, educational circles attention to marital problems from metaphysical research of legal principle turns to jurally concern about guarantee and realization of marriage freedom stage by stage. Marriage Law cannot be legislated without philosophy of right thinking toward marriage freedom. To observe the concern on marriage freedom issues from the perspective of Right Philosophy, comprehension of the essence of Marxism on Right Philosophy is above all things. Then explicit analysis will be carried out to explore the essence of Marxist marriage views in reference to the ontology of philosophy of right. After that, the development law of marriage freedom will be systematically examined based on the Epistemology of Right Philosophy Epistemology. And the thesis will also approach the question on how to embody the pursuit of value of Marxist Philosophy of Right in the primary stage of socialism.Engels clarifies the general law of the development of human marriage in The Origin of the Family, Property, and the State, and he further points out that with the emergence of private ownership, the main part of matrimony evolves from sexual intercourse of natural attribute to economic relationship of social attribute. Marriage, which is not based on affection but rather on economy, is the calculation result of men and women who worship commodity, and thus economy dominates marriage and marriage ends up as the tomb of love. Classical Marxist authors argue that marriage in essence lies in its ethical relations. Personal relation existing in congenial companions should pre-exist their property relation. However, nowadays, the truth is that the derivative latter determines ups and downs of the former, and thus the reversal relation is to prevent men and women from pursuing of congenial sweethearts, i.e. freedom of marriage. To break the spell of commodity fetishism worldly men and women should not pin their hope on the match-makers or Eros, because the foundation of alienation of temporal marriage should be destroyed by material force. After seizing power, the proletariat should produce affluent material wealth, and introduce Marxist outlook on love and marriage into marriage law to let the Bible of Free affirm and guard the freedom of marriage of majority.Classical Marxist authors does not delicately delineate a mosaic blueprint of free marriage in the future society but points out the concrete direction for us, paving the way for a higher stage. And we, the descendants, need to explore and complement practically and theoretically. At the Primary Stage of Socialism, realizing public ownership to a large extent offers a prerequisite for proletariat to pursue marriage freedom. The coexistence of diverse forms of ownership results in pluralistic basis of marriage. At this moment, the family is still the basic unit of social production, and matrimony, as the major way to raise a family, will be certainly influenced by market factors and make people carry out courtship behavior in light of the logic of market. Therefore, marriage freedom does not fully get rid of material interest, realization of feminism is unable to reach, and true monogamy is far beyond our scene. The only way we could solve the above questions, in addition to further liberating and developing productive force which enable male-female achieve equality in wealth creation and assignment. We should also attach importance to reconstructing the mind of people, that is, let marriage freedom turn into a kind of momentous social attitudes, and then blaze a trail for micro-revolution. Only thus can the statements of marriage freedom in Communist Manifesto, abolish obligatory family, and the across-the-aboard monogamy, etc, can be phased in.