Marx’s Social Labor Division Theory And Its Contemporary Value

Since ancient times, social division of labor was an important phenomenon of humansociety. There are many scholars researching on it, and they have achieved fruitful results. Marx’stheory of social division of labor was based on the predecessors’ social division of labor theories.It was the first time that research on the view of dialectical materialism and historical materialism.Marx’s social division of labor as the intermediary, it expounded the social division of labor andproductivity,production relations and other basic categories in the field of social history, revealingthe development trend of the social division of labor, foreseeing the development of humansociety. At present, it is highly developed and in-depth study of Marx’s theory of social division oflabor, helping us to understand the phenomenon of economic globalization and activelyresponding to opportunities and challenges in the process of economic globalization. At the sametime, it also help us build people-oriented harmonious socialist society and guide China’s socialistmodernization construction. This thesis mainly discuss the Marx’s social division of labor fromfive parts.The first part is an introduction part. It elaborates the research origin, it is based on thetheory of realistic thinking methods. It introduces the research status at home and abroad; it is thepremise and foundation of the study. Then it introduces the research ideas and research methods.The second part discusses the foundation of Marx’s theory of social division of labor andits forming process. Firstly it illustrates the theory foundation of Marx’s social division of labortheory, including ancient thinkers such as ideas of social division of labor, and Adam Smith andother classical political economists and utopian socialist thought of social division of labor andother contents. Then introduces the realistic root of Marx’s theory of social division of labor,mainly from the large-scale social production and the capitalist world market under thebackground of the formation of discourse. Finally expounds the formation process of Marx’ssocial division of labor theory, including the early formation and development of the two periods.The third part discusses the main content of Marx’s social division of labor theory. Thispart is the key point of Marx’s social division of labor theory. This part respectively illustrates thesocial division of labor and productivity, production relations, alienation, countries such as therelationship between basic categories in the field of social history.The fourth part discusses the basic features of Marx’s social division of labor theory and itsstatus in the historical materialism. Such as, the theory of Marx’s social division of labor has thebasic characteristics such as practicality, systemic. And then it illustrates the theory of Marxistsocial division of labor in the position of historical materialism. Marx’s theory of social division of labor is to build a powerful lever of historical materialism and to understand the historicalmaterialism is one of the important clues.The fifth part discusses the contemporary value of Marx’s social division of labor theory.This part is the combination of theory with practice. This part explains the theory of Marx’s socialdivision of labor to know phenomenon of economic globalization, promote the status of ourcountry in the international division of labor, to guide the development of Chinese economy andman’s all-round development plays an important role.