The Study Of Cultural Thoughts In German Ideology

Marx and Engels established historical materialism in German Ideology and applied it as a method to do researches in various fields.Marx and Engels' cultural thoughts also realized the materialistic and historical revolution under the influence of this new world view.The transformation has formed a series of fixed expressions.Applying historical materialism to study culture,has revealed the origin and development of culture,the social function,essential characteristics and value purport of culture.The cultural thoughts of Marx and Engels was formed along with historical materialism,and German Ideology is a milestone in the study of the whole cultural thoughts.It has achieved a complete break with the idealist historical concept and constructed the cultural thoughts of historical materialism.The cultural thoughts in German Ideology has its rich connotation and profound foundational significance.First of all,Marx and Engels proceeded from the basic principle of "social existence determines social consciousness",and analyzed the realistic conditions of cultural production,the social and historical characteristics of cultural development and the broad material foundation at the level of social life,and completely separated from the idealist cultural history limit.Secondly,an abstract study of "culture" from the theoretical level reveals the ideological nature and cultural alienation of culture in the class society from the negative dimension,and clarifies the development process and function of culture in the entire human social history from the affirmative dimension.Including the interaction between cultural development and social division of labor and world history.In short,German Ideology laid the theoretical purport of "man's liberation and free development" for the entire Marx and Engels' cultural thoughts,stipulated the theoretical horizon of "historical materialism",and proposed scientific research methods,which have important foundational significance.Under the conditions of the new era,should take Marxism as the guiding ideology,advancing with the times,using Marxist scientific methods to guide practice,and opposing false cultural arguments.The basic theory of cultural thought in German Ideology has had a profound impact on Western Marxist cultural criticism and Chinese cultural construction theory.In the practice of Chinese cultural construction,aiming at the commercialization of culture caused by the colonization of capital logic in the field of cultural production,it is proposed that capital and culture be combined in an advantageous and systematic manner;for the hollowing out of reality and people in the public in the current cultural development process The phenomenon of the loss of critical spirit in culture emphasizes the return of cultural essence and the fundamental purpose of culture serving human liberation and social development.In view of the current weakening of mainstream ideology,it emphasizes the guidance of core values and the effective construction of advanced ruling party culture.