Evaluation Of Habermas’ Reconstruction Of Historical Materialism

Habermas’s rebuilding of historical materialism theory was been put forwardin the new stage of the development of the capitalism in twenty-first Century,this stage is called by Habermas “the late capitalism stage ". Many new problemsat this stage are the cause of the reconstruction of historical materialism.In addition, by the absorption of the relevant theory of Western Marxist,especially the cultural theory, Habermas completed its reconstruction importanttheory source theory. According Habermas’s understand to the historicalmaterialism and the capitalism of social new phenomenon, he put forward somecriticism, mainly for the Marx doctrine behind practice and some historicalmaterialism theory like, the theory of "social labor ", the mode of production，the theory of social morphology, the theory of social basic contradiction andcrisis theory etc.. The reconstruction of the theory put forward by Habermasin criticism. Reconstruction theory is mainly to the social evolution,rationalization of life world and the theory of communicative action in threeas the foundation, and the framework is built up by learning mechanism and socialevolutionary, with the integration of society, language communication behavior,social organization theory and the theory of. Of course Habermas criticism ofhistorical materialism is a part of his reconstruction theory.We should insisting the dialectical principle on Habermas reconstructiontheory, give positive evaluation to the positive aspects as we can place of study;give criticism and clear analysis of the distorted is not correct, as we moveforward to the road to watch. Because of Habermas’s reconstruction belongs toa kind of Western Marxism culture theory, so after the analysis of therelationship between historical materialism and the theory of culture, mainlyfrom four aspects of the reconstruction theory to make comments on: the choseof material production activities and the language communication behavior in the start of historical view; selection of the mode of production and the languageculture in the evolution;" the principle of social organization " as socialformation division standard; learning mechanism theory; the crisis of capitalismtheory.In a word, to the historical materialism, from understanding or innovationdevelopment perspective, are needs of insist on the correct philosophy line,as well as the historical materialism’s basic position, basic principles andbasic view in order to ensure us to the right path. The Marx doctrine in Chinait is adhering to the philosophy course this, provides the correct theoreticalguidance for China’s socialist construction. In modern society we still needto innovation and develop the historical materialism, it is of importantinspiration that reconstruction impairs us.