Marx's Criticism Of Social Contract Theory And Its Significance

In the contemporary world,the thought of social contract is increasingly penetrating into every field of social and political life.Throughout history,the social contract theory has also been active in social and political life,this article first analyzed the theory of social contract from production to the development to the process of questioning and criticism,the social contract theory can be traced back to ancient Greece period,the earliest philosophers such as Socrates at sprout has formed the idea of social contract,and the enlightenment of social contract theory is experienced a rapid development stage,but with the development of he,people increasingly recognize that its internal contains a variety of limitations,leading to a growing number of philosophers,thinkers have questioned and criticized.Marx is quite different from other critics in that his criticism of social contract mainly falls into three aspects: historical materialism,the free and comprehensive development of human beings and the role of social progress.From the perspective of historical materialism,Marx criticized individualism,the theoretical premise of social contract theory,and also deeply criticized the "natural state",the realistic basis of social contract theory,so as to overturn his false individualism.From the perspective of the all-round development of human freedom,Marx deeply criticized the class nature of the social contract theory,and at the same time criticized the justification of the bourgeois freedom and democracy theory in the social contract theory,so as to extend the communism of eliminating private property.From the perspective of the role of social progress,Marx affirmed the role of social contract theory on social progress,and criticized the limitations of social contract theory on the role of social progress.Marx's criticism of social contract theory has great theoretical and practical significance,which is worth learning from.The theoretical significance of Marx's criticism of social contract theory includes three aspects: first,it overthrows the false individualism of social contract theory;second,it puts forward the communist demand of eliminating private property right;third,it raises the research of political philosophy theory into human society accurately.According to its theoretical significance and combined with present situation of today's Chinese society,and it is concluded that the three practical significance of Marx's criticism of the socialcontract theory: first,to realize the free all-round development of people have the significance,the second is that the new era for the economic construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics provides a powerful methodology guidance,three is with the development of today's China are interlinked,laid the foundation of constructing community of human destiny.In fact,in the final analysis,the fundamental significance and foothold of Marx's criticism of the three dimensions of social contract theory is to promote the free and comprehensive development of all people.