To Explore And Analyze The Division Of Labor Of German Ideology

In the German ideology, Mars and Engels formulated the historical materialism for the first time.In this writings, they criticized the young Hegelian. As the main line of the forming process of the historical materialism, division of labor plays an important role. In the German ideology, Mars and Engels made a distinction between the nature division of labor and the social division of labor, they mainly studied the social division of labor. This paper is dedicated to use dynamic process to show the effect of labor division on the evolution of human society, so that we can understand the historical materialism better.The first part states the labor division before the German ideology, first of all, the essay discusses the labor division theory of Adam Smith, as one of the representative of the classical political economics, his theory about division of labor is the direct source of the Marx’s. Secondly, the essay states the relation between the alienation thought in the Economic and philosophical manuscripts in 1844 and the division of labor in the German ideology.The second part is the core part of the essay. This part states the division of labor of the German ideology. First of all, explicit the meaning of labor division, then states the cause of labor division and the development of labor division of capitalism. Mainly discusses the result of the labor division. The labor division is not only has the influence on the productivity and production relations, but also lead to the form of class and world market. The separation of material labor and mental labor has promoted the formation of consciousness.The third part is about the thought of elimination of the labor division. To eliminate the division of labor means to eliminate the division of labor which immobilized the activity of the labor. To be alive, the labor lost their right to choose career. We should eliminate the division of labor which restrict the labor, then we can achieve consciously division of labor. In the end, man and society evolve from one-sided development to all-round development.The fourth part expound the status of division of labor during the forming process of historical materialism. The division of labor is a main line of the forming process of the historical materialism. As the link of productivity and production relations, for one thing, the division of labor reflects the degree of development of productivity, for another, it reflects the production relations. Then we can have a profound understanding of the proposition of the productivity decides the production relations.To make a deeply research on the relation between productivity and production relations, we can understand comprehensively deepening reform better. The profound understanding of historical materialism can help to understand the history development rule of the human society. Thus we can take the socialist road firmly.