On Difficulties Of “Moral Relativism” In Marxism

In the 70 and 80 s of the 20 th century,Anglo-American Marxist researchers debated the moral issues of Marxism on the basis of whether Marxism contains moral relativism,and whether Marxism can exist moral theory.Whether the materialist conception of history contains moral relativism is a fundamental problem in understanding the materialist conception of history correctly.The two basic contradictions are emphasized in materialist conception of history.It is emphasized that morality is changed with the change of social production mode,and there is no eternal morality.So,denying eternal morality and acknowledging that morality is a part of the superstructure means accepting moral relativism and denying moral objectivity? If the Marxism is moral relativism,whether the Marxism can guide the construction of our country forcefully at the moment of the deepening of the reform? Therefore,this paper takes the question of Marx's moral relativism as an argument,and tries to clarify that the acceptance of Marx's materialist conception of materialism will not make Marxism possess moral relativism thought by analyzing the controversy between Anglo-American researchers,Marx's morality does not provide any justification for denying moral objectivity.The introduction part mainly expounds the purpose and significance of the topic selection,and sort out the research achievements of Marx and moral relativism both at home and abroad.At the same time,it explains the innovation of the topic and the research methods of application.The first part mainly studies the question of moral relativism.Discussing the formationand development of moral relativism in the history of the western philosophy.;the connotation and extension of moral relativism are analyzed and the similar and relative concepts in this part.;At the same time,At the same time,it clarifies the defects of moral relativism in theory and the harm of practice..The second part is the core of this article.It mainly discusses the controversy between the Anglo-American marxists that is the debate about Marxist and moral relativism.First of all,from the two basic social contradictions,the eternal truth and the marxism to deny some rejection of moral objectivity,discusses the research by Wood as the representative of Anglo-American Marxism researchers that historical materialism leads to moral relativism.Secondly,starting from the classification of moral relativism,to show that the materialist conception of history does not incur harmful forms of moral relativism,and clarify the historical materialism is compatible with moral objectivity,to discuss with Kai Nielsen,R.G.peffer as the representative of the Anglo-American feminist Marxists to refute the.On this basis,Nelson and Peffer go from different path of Marx's moral concept of remodeling,and defend the moral objectivity of Marxism.The third part mainly studies the value of this debate.Controversy is of great significance for correctly recognizing historical materialism,eliminating misunderstandings of the principles of historical materialism and deepening the recognition of Marxism morality.Finally,this paper points out that the important enlightenment of this controversy to the correct understanding of Marxism.For Wood and others,we must criticize the views of others.For Nelson and others,we should abandon the choice soas to provide reference for our research on historical materialism.