Marx's Cultural Outlook And Its Contemporary Value

China's reform and opening up has gone through forty years,the level of productivity has been greatly improved,and people's material life has made considerable progress.At the same time,cultural soft power,which can reflect China's comprehensive national strength and world influence,has become more and more important.Whether it is in the top level design of the country or in the cultural activities organized by the people,the content of cultural construction and development has increasingly highlighted its strong cohesiveness and influence.Therefore,the cultural power strategy is not a slogan,but a goal that needs the party and the state and the entire Chinese people strive for it in the practice and persist in achieving it,under the guiding of Marxist cultural theory.Culture is the fundamental sign that human beings are different from animals.The relationship between Culture and humanity is mutually promotion.Culture is inseparable from all periods of human society and in all fields.Especially in the philosophical circles of the 20 th century,cultural issues have become the focus of scholars.Based on the perspective of historical materialism and the view that material production practice is the most basic form of human practice,Marx reveals the essence of culture and provides a scientific methodology.Reading many of Marx's works,we are clear that: Regarding the study of culture,Marx's focus is not only on the low-level surface,but on the comprehensive analysis of the internal structure of culture,and the promotion of cultural issues to the level of development of human society.Therefore,Marx's cultural thoughts have rich connotations,and the systematic research on them is conducive to realizing the cultural needs of the “Five in One” established by China.In addition to the introduction,this article is mainly composed of four parts,the contents are as follows: The first part expounds the ideological origin of Marx's cultural view.It introduces the significance of the etymology of “culture”,the cultural concept of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment,and the cultural concepts of the French enlighteners and German classical philosophers.The second part discusses the formation of Marx's cultural view.It is divided into three stages.The first one is the embryonic stage marked by Marx's doctoral dissertation,“The Difference between Democritus' s Natural Philosophy and Epicurean's Natural Philosophy” and “Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right ”;The second is the formation stage marked by “The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844”,“The German Ideology ”and “The Communist Manifesto”;the third is the perfect stage marked by “Capital “and” Anthropology”.The third part discusses the basic content of Marx's cultural view.It is elaborated from five perspectives: the essence of culture,the structure of culture,the attributes of culture,the development of culture and the value of culture.The fourth part is the contemporary value of Marx's cultural view.From the perspective of theoretical value,Marx's cultural view is not only the cornerstone of Marxist cultural theory,but also the source of human cultural theory.Marx's cultural thought is not only an important part of Marxist thought,but also an important part of human cultural history.Studying Marx's cultural thoughts is a deep excavation and expansion of Marxist thought and human culture and philosophy.From the perspective of practical value,Marx's cultural thoughts as an advanced guiding theory of cultural development,it provides a certain theoretical basis for the development of China's cultural industry,the improvement of civic cultural quality,the improvement of the people's happiness index,the solidarity and mutual assistance among all ethnic groups,and the correct handling of the relationship between the ancient and modern times and the Chinese and western culture,which is conducive to promoting China's economic prosperity and development and strengthening the country's cultural soft power.Marx's cultural thoughts innovatively put forward the principles of cultural essence,cultural structure theory and cultural attribute theory based on the relationship between the essence and process of human cognition and the process of cognition,and profoundly exposed the cultural development.The internal mechanism scientifically summarizes the driving force of cultural development,and has important theoretical value and practice for the ongoing socialist cultural construction in China,inheriting and promoting national culture,correctly treating foreign culture,enhancing cultural identity,and realizing the strategy of strengthening the country through culture.All in all,culture is the most important thing for a nation or people.It is the result of the continuous accumulation or cohesion of human practice in the process of historical evolution,in the process of interaction between man and nature and society and itself.Once the culture of existence is formed,it must have inherent stability,and its influence can not be ignored: on the one hand,it has a decisive constraint on the existence of individual existence in culture itself;on the other hand,it constitutes the operation of society.The internal mechanism restricts the development of other aspects such as economy and politics.Thus,the transformation of culture is always the most profound change in the world.In a certain sense,Marx's cultural outlook plays a very important role in the history of the development of human culture.It is not difficult to find that Marx's concept of culture is also an important magic weapon for realizing the construction of socialist culture in China.Therefore,in the process of developing socialist cultural undertakings,we must always adhere to the guidance of Marxist ideas and build on the Marxist cultural outlook,strive for the early realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,and realize the prosperity and development of the socialist cultural cause.