Comparative Research On Theory Of Human Essence Between Feminism And Marxism

The Marx’s treatises about the human essence are Marxist human essence theories,feminist analysis of women’s social status and living conditions, they also thinking about theessence of human nature and women then formed their own view of people, but there arelarger differences between human essence theories of the genre. This article from theperspective of Marxism to unscramble the views of human essence in radical feminism,liberal feminism, Socialist feminist and postmodern feminist.Liberal feminism, radical feminism, socialist feminist and postmodern feminism on thehuman nature have the different versions. Liberal feminists believe that human’s rationalpotential is gender-neutral, women’s rational capacity was ignored and suppressed, abolishedgender conducive to the all-round development of human essence; Radical feminismconsiders human’s biological reproduction is the basis of society, women are not born but"artificial"; Socialist feminists believe that gender construct human’s psychologicalcharacteristics, and gender characteristics be strengthen through practical activities, female’sreproductive activity is in fact an alienation of gender; Postmodern feminism is considereduniversal, constant human essence does not exist, and reflect to build discourse of the femalenature.Marxist’s human essence theories include nature essence, social essence and classessence of opinions. In Marxist’s view, nature essence is the basic content of human essencetheories, people have natural desires as animal, human existence is inseparable from thenatural world, human survival and development must also follow the laws of nature; Thesocietal attribute is at the core of Marxist’s human essence theories, human essence is thecreative practical activities, the societal attribute is the sum of all social relations, individualnature of humans is personality; human nature of class society is class division.Becausehuman nature is the product of a particular historical context, the essence of human beinfluenced by class relations, emancipation of female needs to eliminate class.Look at feminists’ human essence theories with Marxist materialist dialectics, we willfind the deal view of liberal feminist who deny human nature of gender, contrary to the Marxist dialectical materialism, but social relationships on the essential role of human essence,in line with the historical materialism of Marxism, Community’s vision for the future and thehistorical materialism of Marxism is similar,Radical feminist’s analysis of the biologicalbasis of social systems is materialistic, but their biological determinism deviate from Marxisthuman is bio-historical perspective, the view of gender antagonism the same as classantagonisms against the Marxist dialectic of history; Socialist feminism’s viewpoints ofpatriarchy and capitalism the double system are different from historical materialism ofMarxism, but they used dialectical and historical method fixes the feminist theory of mind,and develop the theory of reproductive activities are social impetus of historical materialism;Postmodern feminism study human nature putting undue stress on differences, can’t see thegeneral contact, deny the applicability of the class essence of humans in capitalist society andpointed out that liberation of women’s essence was not overthrow class system but builddiscourse power.By studying the human essence concept of feminism, we recognize the reasonablenessof Marxist human essence theories.Feminist research on human essence from different socialsides, put the housework and reproductive activity as content of the human essence theories.They enrich the research perspective of human essence theories, also provide a new way toconstruct a harmonious gender relation from the cultural and the employment system.