Lefebvre's Spatial Political Thought And Philosophical Criticis

Lefebvre is a representative figure of French Marxism.He is widely known as a pioneer of daily life theory,and a leader of spatial turning.He started the spatial turn of Marxism,intending to find the key to cracking social exploitation and oppression from the liberation of space.In the past,as a background factor,space played an active role in the social process and human activities,and its existence mode was background,hidden but not obvious.Now,space is highlighted,and as a tool,it has become a tool for the bourgeoisie to exploit the proletariat.Lefebvre claims that space is political,which reflects his critical implication of capitalist space.This paper focuses on the openness implication of Lefebvre’s space political thought and its practical significance to contemporary China.The transformation of capitalist production and the reality of space production gave Lefebvre inspiration about space thinking.His profound understanding and innovation of Marx’s historical materialism analysis method enabled him to start the spatial turn of Marxism.Marxist philosophy,the critical theory of daily life and the theory of spatial production can all be regarded as the cultural background of his spatial political thought.His main logic line is to restore the "overall human being",eliminate human alienation,and achieve his ideal spatial "differential space" from the criticism of spatial politics.Space in the context of Lefebvre’s space political thought includes physical space,thinking space,and social space,In his view,space is the concrete abstraction of social relations,and it is in these spaces that space politics comes into being.Although capitalist countries eased the contradiction by manipulating the production of space,the contradiction also shifted to space.Lefebvre believed that capitalist space production under the dominance of the bourgeoisie contained many political contradictions,such as the contradiction between mobility strategy and inherent value,the contradiction between classes,the contradiction between the constitutive center and multiplicity center,and so on.Lefebvre’s criticism of space politics is precisely the planned,strategic,instrumental,and exploitative space by the bourgeoisie.Through his criticism of various spatial visions,Lefebvre achieves his criticism of capitalist society.We should see Lefebvre’s contribution to the development of Marx’s historical materialism with space as a breakthrough.Based on materialistic dialectics,he innovated the ternary space dialectics,incorporated space into the category of commodities,developed a political space economy,and proposed a political space strategy that surpasses the abstract space control of capitalism "differential space".At the same time,we should also see Lefebvre’s deviation from Marx’s theory in his analysis of spatial politics.He overthrew and transformed Marx’s fundamental problems,fantasized about solving all social problems through space,and turned the Marxist analysis of urban problems into the Marxist analysis of urbanization.His analysis of social space and political contradictions of capitalism is of great enlightening significance for us.We should avoid over-reliance on space economy,build diversified space,give full play to various value attributes of space,rationally develop socialist space with China characteristics,rationally resolve the spatial contradiction,promote the construction of green,sustainable and regional space layout,and embody China’s space justice in space production.