Marx’s Technology Thought And Its Contemporary Value

The primary task of this article is elaborating the background, the formation and thedevelopment of the Marx’s technology thought, explaining that the producing of the Marx’stechnology thought is bound to the development of science and technology, and theachievement of the industrial revolution.Then summarizing the main content of the Marx’s technology thought. The value and theconnotation of technology mainly reflect in that technology is an extension of the naturalforce laborer, the social productivity significance of technology, the industrial civilizationperformance of technology, the art aesthetic value of technology and technology promotes thedevelopment of human society. The technology is not only the objectification of people’sessential strength, but also shows the progressive of productivity; Technology reflects thenatural quality and the social attribute have achieved dialectical unity; and technology is thepractical knowledge. Then, summarizing the characteristic of technology: comprehensive andrelativistic. In addition, Western Marxism analysis the Marx’s technology thought from thehumanism and the scientism, formed a distinctive technical view, showed that In thecontemporary social and historical conditions,the deepening and the development of theMarx’s technology thought.Through the above summary of the Marx’s technology thought, this article is puttingforward that with the development of industry and the progress of society, under thebackground of contemporary globalization, China’s socialist modernization construction,especially requiring the Marx’s technology thought to provide the guidance of thedevelopment of our future. According to the "science is the first productivity", illustrating theimportance of science and technology in promoting the industrialization process of human,putting forward that the development of our country can’t leave the development of scienceand technology and the innovation; according to possibility of Marx’s "technology alienation",proposing that in the process of our country’s modernization construction, especially needvigilant the coordinated development of the relationship between man and nature, mustinsisting on scientific development view to guide our country’s ecological civilization construction, promoting sustained and healthy development of the economy and society in ourcountry.