A Study Of Marx And Engels’ Early Moral Criticism

In the early works of Marx and Engels,there are rich expositions on moral criticism.They criticize society from a moral point of view,and their judgment targets not only various old moral concepts,but also the entire old world.Marx and Engels’ moral criticism has always been based on complex and changing real life.They cited a lot of facts,through theoretical exploration and social investigation,analyzed and revealed the unreasonable and immoral social conditions in feudal society and capitalist society,and they made a sharp and violent criticism of the reasons for the exploitation and slavery of the working masses.The basis of the research in this article is the early main works of Marx and Engels and related literature.First,this article sorts out the main theoretical sources of Marx and Engels’ early moral criticism.The early moral criticism of Marx and Engels mainly criticized and inherited the moral critical thoughts in German classical philosophy,Late Greek philosophy and Utopian socialism.Secondly,this article discusses the main content of Marx and Engels’ early moral criticism.The early moral criticism of Marx and Engels was mainly aimed at the feudal society and capitalist society,including moral criticism of feudal hierarchies,feudal country,feudal religions,and feudal ethics,and moral criticism of capitalist private ownership,capitalist class oppression,alienated labor,bourgeois political economy,and bourgeois ethics.Third,this article summarizes the main characteristics of Marx and Engels’ early moral criticism,and further discusses its later ideological evolution.Marx and Engels’ early moral criticism showed distinctive practical,class and revolutionary characteristics.After the establishment of historical materialism,the moral criticism of Marx and Engels became more mature and gradually developed into a scientific moral criticism based on the historical materialist standpoint.Finally,this article explains the practical revelation of Marx and Engels’ early moral criticism.To comprehensively,accurately,and systematically grasp and understand Marx and Engels’ moral criticism has important theoretical value and practical significance for in-depth understanding of the essence of Marx and Engels’ thoughts and doctrines,promoting the research of Marxist theory and Marxist ethics,analyze and solve the complicated moral problems and eliminate the negative influence of bad thoughts,the moral construction and moral education of China.