Inheritance And Critique To Marx’s Alienation Theory By Baudrillard Symbol Consumption Theory

Marx’s alienation theory is the alienation theory of historical materialism,and it is a dynamic development process.However,with the arrival of the consumer society,many new things followed.Baudrillard believes that Marx’s alienation theory is not enough to explain them.He put semiotics into Marx’s alienation theory,and formed his theory of symbolic consumption.To a certain extent,his theory is the inheritance and development of Marx’s alienation theory.However,his symbol consumption theory in its formation process,the symbol encoding metaphysics exaggerating,the negation of the core status of the material production,and negative the rode of Marx tried to utilize revolutionary practice to abandon alienation,which led him to betray Marx’s way.This thesis is based those content to discuss the topic of inheritance and critique to Marx’s alienation theory by Baudrillard symbol consumption theory.This thesis includes four parts,the first part is the introduction.It introduces the background and significance of the topic,as well as domestic and overseas status quo for research on Baudrillard’s thought;the second part is discussed Marx’s alienation theory formation and development context,reflects the Marxist theory of alienation is a process of dynamic development,and points out the dimension of historical materialism theory of alienation,which is Marx discussed;the third part discusses the theory of Baudrillard symbol consummption will expand the category of the alienation to the sign of the field,no longer limited in the fields.The fourth part discusses Baudrillard discovered with the advent of the consumer society capitalism and the new alienation and issues,and Marx’s theory of alienation confront them has gradually lost its strong realistic interpretation power.Baudrillard criticized Marx’s alienation theory,and pointed out that Marx criticized capitalism,but Marx’s criticism was not thorough.At the same time,he thought that the way of discarding the alienation on the basis of historical materialism is not workable.