The Moral Theory Of Analytical Marxism

The Analytical Marxism rose in the 1970s.As a result of the economic crisis,the form of social contradictions has changed.The subject of Analytical Marxism also shifted to philosophy,economics and politics.An important area involved in the analysis of Marxist research is the moral theory of Marxism.Since Allen Wood published "The Marxian Critique of Justice",the Marxist had fierce debate on moral theory.Wood's article opens the first key question of debate:whether Marxism has moral theory and how to understand Marx's criticism of morality in his text.In Marx's text,the moral issue mainly involves Marx's criticism of ideology.So is morality an ideology?Is the ideology distorted?This question is related to the legitimacy of moral theory.Of Marxism.Anti-Marxist moralists hold a relatively idea that Marxism has no moral component and Marxism does not need to establish a moral theory.The Marxist moralism representatives such as Kai Nielsen,Peffer,Lukes refuted the Anti-Marxist.They argue that the blurring of Marx's use of moral concepts led to the subsequent misunderstanding of the Marxist concept,which was largely caused by the ambiguity of the concept of "ideology".One solution is Nelson's proposed sociology of morality.Another solution is to redefine the concept of ideology.Both Nielsen and Peffer used this way.Among them,Peffer distinguishes ideology from the global ideology and nonglobal ideology,thus refuting the idea that"morality is ideology" and then proposing that Marxism is moral theory.Since Marxism has a moral theory,then,does historical materialism lead to moral relativism?Pefer has study four different forms of relativism and the conclusion is that the moral theory of Marxism is not moral relativism.Since the goal of the moral theory of Marxism is human freedom,the analysis of Marxist moral theory of Marxist reconstruction is naturally around the concept of freedom.Peffer takes freedom as a self-determination opportunity,Lukes combines freedom and liberation together to discuss.Morality has practical character,so we also need to discuss the application of Marxist moral theory in reality,which includes whether Marxist moral theory is a moral utopian.By examining the practical dimensions of moral utopia and Marxist moral theory,we can claim that Marxist moral theory is a sublation and transcendence of moral utopia.Finally,we will use Marxist moral theory combined with social reality to criticize today's Chinese egoism.