Analysis Of "Economic Determinism"

Since the birth of the historical materialism,it has produced a huge influence in the theoretical field.The greater the influence is,the more attention it receives,and the easier it is to be misunderstood and misinterpreted,easier to be criticized and blamed.The main focus of the criticism is that it emphasis so much on the decisive role of economy,and neglect other factors that can promote the development of society,and further summarized historical materialism as "economic determinism",a summary that hinders us from fully understanding the connotation of historical materialism and Impede the spread and development of the theory.So it is necessary to figure out the difference and connection between historical materialism and "economic determinism".Through literature reading and analysis,we can summarize and refine two types of "economic determinism" with different theoretical connotation and purport in history,including: vulgar "economic determinism",and spontaneous "economic determinism".This paper returns to the historical background of the emergence of different "economic determinism",aiming to explore the significance,value and limitations of the formulation of "economic determinism".The vulgar economic determinism's emergence is premised on the establishment of historical materialism.The superiority of historical materialism over historical idealism is embodied in its unveiling to the economic necessity of the development of social history,so In the debate with historical idealism,Marx and Engels had to focus and concentrate on the history of economic necessity,and thus gives people the impression that they don't value the superstructure role of Marxism.Marxism was misread as vulgar "economic determinism" under the combined action of the fanaticism and superficiality within the proletariat and the wanton distortion of bourgeois scholars.From Marx's criticism of classical political economy and Engels' s criticism of the "German Youth",we can find the precious theoretical resources of criticizing the vulgar "economic determinism",which effectively defended the scientific nature and value of historical materialism.In the process of criticizing the vulgar "economic determinism",the historical materialism has achieved the basic victory in the debate with the historical idealism.With the transition from free capitalism to monopoly capitalism,the main problem that Marxists faced had become how to use Marxism to explain the new changes in capitalism.Monopoly capitalism brought about the organization of production and the improvement of workers' living conditions,which restored faith in capitalism.In this historical context,the Second International theorists put forward the spontaneous "economic determinism",advocating in a peaceful modified transition from capitalism to socialism instead of the proletarian revolution,which had had a very negative impact on the proletarian revolution worldwide.However,the new changes of capitalism hadn't solved the essential contradictions of capitalism,but make the contradictions become increasingly acute in the world.The conditions of the proletarian revolution are becoming more and more ripe.The victory of the "October Revolution" in Russia and the success of the social revolution in China have declared the bankruptcy of the spontaneous "economic determinism",revealed the subjectivity of human being in historical materialism,and revealed the subjective initiative of human being in the course of social history.In the end,on the basis of summarizing the whole text,we will elaborate the logic of the development and evolution of "economic determinism".And through the criticism of "economic determinism",this paper reveals the dialectical understanding of historical materialism to the role of economic determinism,and elaborate the viewpoint that historical materialism is a dialectical view of economic determinism.