A Study In The Idea Of Marx’s Labor And Its Contemporary Significance

The thought of labor is an important content in Marxist philosophy.Labor refers to the free and conscious activities of human beings.While people create foreign objects through labor,they also enable people to develop freely and comprehensively,which in turn promotes the development of history.By analyzing alienated labor in capitalist society,Marx clarified its hindering effect on human development.How to realize human liberation through labor liberation is Marx’s main theoretical task.Through the analysis of the historical background and the theoretical source of Marx’s labor thought,it is pointed out that Marx’s research on labor thought was due to the urgent needs of the society at that time,and it also clarified the inheritance and development relationship between the methodology and ontology of labor thought and predecessors’ thoughts.Marx’s labor thought runs through the whole process of his thought.From the early 1840 s to his death,Marx’s theoretical research has never been separated from this core topic.The basic connotation of Marx’s labor thought has the following aspects: First,labor is the material production practice of human beings and the material activity that changes the world.Second,labor is an objective activity,the basis for self-production,self-development,and humanizing nature.Marx’s labor has four characteristics: subjectivity,sociality,value and historicity.Through the interpretation of labor as the key to understanding historical development,the interpretation of alienated labor and labor liberation,it is clearly recognized that labor’s historical determining role and labor liberation are the core of human liberation.The study of Marx’s labor thought is of great value to the development of contemporary China.Based on the basic connotation of Marx’s labor thought and the specific practice in contemporary China,Marx’s labor thought promotes the development of the real economy,is conducive to the realization of common prosperity,and is also an important theoretical basis for the development of labor education in the new era.