Lukacs’ Materialization Theory And Its Contemporary Value

Lukacs’s materialization theory was generated from both the social background ofthe First World War and the failure of the Hungarian revolution, as well as theconditions of capitalist economic development of social productivity. From thehistoric perspective of the Marxist phylogeny, when the illegal interpretation forMarxism from the Second International caused a temporary clamour, it called for anew reasonable explanation. As a Marxist soldier and theorist, Lukacs consciouslywove his theoretical life and the calling of the theory of the time into his composition.He combined Marx’s "Das Kapital" with the view from Weber and Simmel andeventually formed his own materialization theory.Lukacs’ materialized theory is a unique theory which was formed on the basis ofMarx’s theory of commodity and labor materialization. This theory made a goodexpansion of Marx’s materialization theory on psychological dimension. From the viewof the logic of theory evolution, Lukacs’ Materialization theory was originated in thedimension of reality-the universal physical world, got a breakthrough in thepsychological dimension-the personal consciousness of materialization, reached itspeak in the ethical dimensions-social consciousness of materialization, disappearedin the ultimate dimension--materialization crisis.Lukacs’ materialization theory has important theoretical and practical significanceon the development of times. In theory, to deepen the theory of materialization in thenew era can make a good explanation for the new materialized picture-thematerialized culture and daily life; efforts to promote the critical dimension ofmaterialization can promote the reversion of human values; materialization crisistheory, as a new theory to explore, greatly enriched the Marxist crisis theory, andmade up for the gap in the materialization crisis theory of Marx and Habermas.In reality, materialization theories made attempt to frame the Chinese NewModernity borders from a negative perspective, to clarify meaning, and it caneffectively disenchant the value system of scientism, restore the original function oftechnology, and revive the position of the value system of Marxism. Through acombination of materialization theory and the reality of China, a new conclusion can be made: the ultimate goal of modern should be unified into history, that there shouldbe a unification of the subject and the object. Eventually, the deduction of theoryreached the same conclusion as the realistic choice of China---to make the goal of newmodernity on scientific development. The construction of contemporary Chinesesociety is in full swing. During the economic development process, a lack of holisticintegrity in concept caused imbalance of the socio-economic development. In the moreand more matured material conditions of society, the Westernism’s worship of moneyand consumerism fluxed into our nation and matched with the economy materializedconsciousness of individuals in certain individual sectors, fitting to become their liferules and gradually spread. Through the use of Lukacs’ Materialization theoreticaldeduction and analysis, the overall improvement of the control of the socialisteconomy, optimizing the national macro-control to overcome the uneven developmentin the economic field is a priority. Comprehensively strengthening the building ofsocialist culture, unlocking the materialization consciousness of money worship andconsumerism, and building a socialist core value system are the key to overcome thematerialization consciousness and thought.