The Study Of Historical Materialism In The English World Since The New Century

Since the founding of the materialist conception of history by Marx and Engels,the study of historical materialism in the field of Marxist theory has been one of the focuses in the theoretical circle.Since the new century,study on historical materialism has abandoned the ideology and dogmatic tradition of the Soviet era.On the one hand,it brings the methodological weapons to the social theory when it encounters the impact of capitalist globalization;On the other hand,it shows a more diverse and dispersed interpretation mode eventually.Investigations of historical materialism in different theories in the new century mainly include:Some contemporary left in British and American analyze social evolution and historical materialism and the relationship between them,they hope to find a new way to solve the contradiction of the present capitalism by constructing a new political theory.It mainly includes determining the dialectical method to approach the social evolution by sorting the support and opposition in the development of social evolution;discussing the advantages and disadvantages of the use of personal computers in the contemporary society though an analysis of Habermas's theory of social evolution;and analyzing the real meaning of the evolution of capitalism through the comparative study of Fordism and lean production.Marxism feminist intellectuals re-examine the relationship between the text ofMarx,the tradition of Marxism and the reality of feminism in the dual dilemma of reality and theory,basing on their own 'identity'.What's more important is that they both reflect on the globalization of capitalism and the marginalization of its own theory.Including the analysis that either the capitalist mode of production or the patriarchal system lead to the oppression of women;the comprehension of the influence of ideology on women's oppression and the possibility of women's liberation;analyzing the problems that feminism encountered and the shortcomings of the theories of feminism by reviewing the modern history of them,and discussing the possibility of women's emancipatory politics;Contemporary historians separately from the historical writing of Marx and Engels,the labor movements and class struggles in American Civil War,as well as the "edge" of history research in the colonial history to expound the significance of historical materialism in contemporary history research.Among these theories,study on the historical writing is to find the relationship among the texts of the Marxism historical writing in different periods,and on this basis,to build a link between Marxism and history to fill the gap between the two;in the analysis of the working class in the American Civil War and after the civil war,the class struggle and revolutionary theory of Marx and Engels is put into the specific historical context of the early period of the founding of the United states,and the author insists that the reason that the USA did not build the influential working class as the European's is that Marx and Engels's theory of class struggle did not continued after the civil war;the "edge"history is a historical elaboration of those problems about the revolutionary struggle of the labor class that around the non-capitalist heartland and in the history of the Atlantic as well as its influence on modern capitalism.In the era that "thousands of faces of Marxism" becomes an important theoretical characteristic,historical materialism how to return and how to enter the era should be paid attention to.Therefore,we have to say that since the new century,these scholars above in the English world have enriched the contemporary theoretical connotation of historical materialism objectively for they concern and elaboration of historical materialism,what's more,it also stimulates the theoretical vitality of historical materialism.