Studying The Essence Of Marxism Philosophy Base On The Main Disadvantage Of The Old Materialism

Accurate understanding of the essence of Marxist philosophy is the internaldemand of the contemporary society, Marx did not give a specific title to the newmaterialism philosophy which he created all by himself. The nature of Marxistphilosophy is one of the hot issues of academic circles. The essence of Marxistphilosophy is dialectical materialism or practice materialism becomes the keydifferent understanding to the essence of Marxist philosophy, some experts think theessence of Marxist philosophy is dialectical materialism; scholars who take this vieware mainly influenced by the former Soviet Union, especially "the theory of dialecticalmaterialism and historical materialism” which was writed by Stalin. And thenacademic circles hold the understanding of "dialectical materialism and historicalmaterialism" as a synonym for the nature of Marxist philosophy; and some otherexperts believe that Marxist philosophy is practical materialism，They point out thatalthough Marx did not call his philosophy "practical materialism" directly, he stressedthe importance of practice,which placed in the irreplaceable position in all hisphilosophical system. In his classic book "about Feuerbach’s compendium" and"German ideology", illustrates that the scientific practice is the primary and essentialviewpoint of Marxist philosophy.How to understand the essence of Marxist philosophy, the key of this question isthe way how to think about the nature of the Marxist philosophy. In this paper, writerregarded the main disadvantages of the old materialism as the entry of view to analyzethe nature of Marxist philosophy, analyzed the reasons of these two different viewsabout understanding the essence of Marxist philosophy is dialectical materialism orthe practice materialism. The author thinks the main reason to the differentunderstandings is the main shortcomings of the old materialism. Traditional textbooksbelieve the main disadvantage of the old materialism is metaphysics, the newphilosophy created by Marx overcame the metaphysics, so as to transcendence of theold materialism, established the nature of Marxist philosophy is dialecticalmaterialism, Marxist philosophy is dialectical materialism in nature. But Marx holdthe different opinion, thought the main drawback of the old materialism is intuitive,only by establishing the practice view to overcome the intuitiveness of the oldmaterialism, so as to transcendence the old materialism. Established practice view is the most important idea of the new theory of philosophy, practice is the essentialcharacteristics of the new materialism, and the new materialism is a practicalmaterialism essentially. Practical materialism is a new worldview united the practiceand dialectics, realized the change of thinking mode based on the practice view.