Retrospect On Baudrillard’s Critique On Historical Materialism And Its Problem

Since the1950s, with the rapid development of science and technology and the wideapplication of modern capitalist society an important shift from the past to produce-drivensociety toward a consumer-driven society, this time socialthe main problem is no longer howto produce, but the problem of how to consume traditional economics research supplydetermine the law of the demand is broken. When the consumer to become the dominantproblem, you first need to do is not only how to organize production, but how to organizeconsumer. Which is clearly a new era characterized Marx failed to directly expressed. It isalso here that Western scholars departure from the basic concept of "production"interpretation of Marx, to oppose the Marxist doctrine. They have generally agree that Marx’stheory is an accurate characterization of the conditions of the times in a period of laissez-fairecapitalism, but in the face of the new characteristics of the times, the theory of Marxism isoutdated. Thus a clear-cut rejection of Marxist theory.Baudrillard is undoubtedly one of the representatives of this group of people. In the eyesof Baudrillard, Marx’s theory is based on the concept of "production" of political economics,production centrism. And trying to perpetuate the status quo of capitalism, so he called Marxas the accomplice of capitalism. He hoped that the exchange principle to restore the originaltribal symbol against capitalist exploitation and oppression. With its reasoning of thedeepening, and ultimately toward the the pessimistic fatalism "thinking.With the many Marx external enemy, Baudrillard is not only simplistic to attack differenthistory derived morphology of Marx’s thought, but accurately direct the bursting of the mostimportant historical materialism theory Building internal support structure-materialproduction base beginningtheory and historical phenomenology logic. This is one we have totake seriously the major theoretical problem, because it is directly related to the life and deathof Marxism.In addition, we would also like to see: domestic academia there is somemisunderstanding on Baudrillard and Marx relations. From the perspective of Marxistphilosophy, most of the book is just standing Margery’s position to respond to the criticism ofBaudrillard, a value preset research activities, affect the objectivity of the research, but alsojust Baudrillard criticism mechanical response, did not show the vitality of academic researchsince.Intrinsic link to find out Baudrillard and Marx thought this article by returning to the theearly Baudrillard text and the Marxist classics on Baudrillard questioning of historicalmaterialism to make theoretical response, pointed out that Baudrillard Marx understoodnot Marx’s "deity", but second International Soviet Marxism misinterpreted the illusion. On thisbasis, the proposed boundaries of historical materialism, historical materialism is notapplicable to the history of human development at all stages of the absolute truth, but Marx’stheory of social criticism launched against capitalist society, it only has relative truth,boundary issues into historical materialism research sight.