A Study Of Urban Thought In Engels' ?The Situation Of The British Working Class?

"The condition of working class in England"("condition")is an early Engels' classic work,which played an important role in the process of Engels' establishment of historical materialism.This work not only profoundly illustrates the important role played by the industrial revolution in the formation of the proletariat,but also contains rich urban ideas and is a valuable treasure in Marxist urban sociology.During his life in Manchester,England(November 1842-September 1844),personally went deep into the working class to observe the living conditions and situation of workers,and collected materials on the living conditions of workers from various channels.Engels critically absorbed the British classical political economics and even vulgar political economics,as well as the ideological material of utopian socialism,portraying the dramatic changes in the urban spatial form caused by the capitalistic mode of production and the resulting serious the tragic experience of the urban working class,the extreme deterioration of the urban environment and the spread of urban social injustice urban social problems,forming the profound insights into the social problems of capitalistic cities during the industrial revolution.In addition,Engels scientifically demonstrated the tragic experience of the proletariat caused by the urbanization of capitalism and the inevitability of the revolution of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie,specifically clarifying the scientific conclusion of the historical materialism that only the subversion of the capitalistic mode of production can completely solves the urban social problems.The urban thoughts in "Status" preliminarily reflects the practical,scientific and forward-looking theoretical characteristics of historical materialism,and its historical value and enlightenment,which provides important methodological enlightenment and theoretical guidance for us to absorb and learn from the basic experience of western urbanization and go out of a path with people and people,people and nature live harmony in the current historical tide of universal urbanization all over the world.