On The Theoretical Contributions Of Historical Materialism In Engle’s Later Times

As we all know, Engels and Marx were the mentor of proletarian revolution, they founded the theory of proletarian revolutionary-Marxism, and made an indelible contribution to the application and development of this theory. After the death of Marx, Engels shouldered the tasks of leading European socialist movement and guiding the development of the Marxist theory. The interior of capitalism at this time also undergoing significant changes, the capitalist mode of production occupy a dominant position in many Western countries. Due to historical materialism and proletarian revolutionary practice has closer ties, so bourgeois thinkers often attacks the historical materialism at first time. They use the determining role of economic factors to explain the whole process of social and historical development,with a simple and mechanical mode, and ignoring the relative independence and counterproductive of superstructure and ideology, distort the historical materialism as " economic materialism " and "historical determinism ".historical materialism is facing an unprecedented new challenges.In Engels’later times, he development the theory of historical materialism the way was based on specific changes in economic and social development, combined with the need to combat. And then combined with the specific situation, Engels got a better understanding on capitalism and socialism, he thinks socialism is a historical process asymptotically, each country should take appropriate form in accordance with the country’s socialist reality Engels also aware of the decisive role in the development of human history of two kinds of production theory, and emphasized the relative independence and counterproductive of ideology. Additionally, Engels together the individual will with the historical development of organic unity, further deepening the historical development of the theory of social processes. This paper summarizes the three main aspects of the historical materialism which Engels development namely:" Two production theory "," Historical resultant theory" and "The relative independence of ideology," and attempt from the three aspects to explain the contribution of Engels in detail, Expected to show the deepening and development of historical materialism in Engels’later times.