On Paul Lafargue's Theory Of Economic Determinism

In the course of the development of Marxist philosophy in the 20 th century,Lafarge occupied an important theoretical position.Combined with the practice of the proletarian revolutionary movement in France and the national cultural tradition,he expounded Marx's historical materialism from the angle of economic determinism and created a unique economic determinism thought.Under the background of the evolution of French social ideology and culture and the historical development of Marxist philosophy in the 20 th century,this paper comprehensively examines the historical situation,ideological resources,creative course and theoretical contents of the formation of Lafarge's economic determinism from the perspective of political philosophy It presents the theoretical features and contemporary values of his economic determinism and tries to correct people's misreading of his economic determinism.The formation of Lafarge's economic determinism is closely related to the development of French social thought history and Marxist philosophy history in the 20 th century.Under the historical circumstances of the change of the capitalist era,the upsurge of the international workers' movement and the collision of various new trends of thought,by critically absorbing the theory of human historical law of Vico and Morgan,Lafarge inherited the French materialist philosophical tradition and creatively applied Marx's historical materialism to form his unique economic determinism theory.Lafarge's approach to the creation of economic determinism was not accomplished overnight,but rather in criticizing historical idealism and explaining the history of human society.The law of development,exploring the historical movement of capital and property gradually formed and developed.By comparing the nature of man-made environment with natural environment,Lafarge's idea of economic determinism explains the objective understanding that man is the motive force of history and the mode of production determines the historical development of man-made environment,explores the characteristics of the law of human historical development from the angle of production mode,analyzes the origin of property and the evolution of capitalist property form,points out the contradictions brought by capitalist society,and exposes the potential factors of economic revolution.The core content of Lafarge's economic determinism.Lafarge's thought of economic determinism is the theoretical form of French Marxist philosophy,which is essentially different from the vulgar materialism of the second international "economic determinism ".Although it attaches too much importance to economic phenomena,anarchism tendency and lack of dialectics thought,we can not ignore its historical value of criticizing the second international vulgar economic determinism,defending and creating Marx's historical materialism and creating the French Marxist philosophical tradition,and it provides important ideological resources for constructing Chinese Marxist political philosophy,promoting the process of Sinicization of Marxist philosophy and building socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.