Marx’s Anti-poverty Thought And Its Contemporary Value

Poverty has always accompanied human civilization,and it is a long-standing and persistent global problem.Especially after human society entered the capitalist stage,poverty has become a very serious social problem.From the perspective of social history significance,Marx made a deep exploration of the widespread poverty in capitalist society.The anti-poverty thought formed from this not only contributed profound ideological theory and valuable spiritual wealth to the world’s poverty eradication,but also provided the Chinese people with theoretical basis,ideological reference and spiritual sustenance to win the battle against poverty and move towards common prosperity.Marx’s anti-poverty ideology emerged in the context of the continuous intensification of basic contradictions in capitalist society.Marx critically absorbed the outstanding theoretical achievements of Ancient philosophy in Germany,classical Political economy in Britain,and Utopian socialism in Britain and France,and founded the proletarian anti-poverty thought.Marx’s exploration of poverty and anti-poverty issues runs through various stages of Marx’s ideological development,and his theoretical viewpoints are scattered in many of his classic works.Marx’s anti-poverty ideology went through a process of initial germination,basic formation,continuous development,and finally reaching maturity and perfection.Marx’s anti-poverty ideology is a scientific,systematic,and complete theoretical system,pointing out that the manifestations of poverty are diverse,including material poverty,spiritual poverty,absolute poverty,and relative poverty;It also points out that the causes of poverty are complex,which have both institutional and social roots,surface and deep roots,but in the final analysis,it is the deep root of capitalist Private property that causes the proletariat’s "extreme poverty";It was also pointed out that there are various measures to combat poverty,institutional reform is a prerequisite,labor liberation is an inevitable requirement,and the development of productive forces is the material foundation;Finally,it points out that the goal of anti-poverty is clear,and the most fundamental is to achieve Common prosperity for all mankind.The emergence of the scientific Marxist anti-poverty ideology is a great change in the development history of anti-poverty ideology.Compared to the Western anti-poverty ideology that prioritizes personal interests,the Marxist anti-poverty ideology based on historical materialism has revolutionary,dialectical,and practical characteristics.In the 21 st century,Marx’s anti-poverty ideology was not "outdated",and in contemporary China,Marx’s anti-poverty ideology also continues to be "useful".Marx’s anti-poverty ideology,on the one hand,laid the ideological foundation for China’s new era anti-poverty theory,mainly manifested in: deepening the understanding that poverty in capitalist society is the essential requirement of socialism,from poverty to poverty eradication;From the elimination of institutional poverty to the ideological sublimation of phased governance of poverty in Socialist mode of production;The theoretical development from elucidating relative poverty to promoting the synergy between rural revitalization and relative poverty governance.On the other hand,it also brings important inspiration to contemporary China’s anti-poverty practice: in politics,always adhere to the leadership position of the proletarian political party in the anti-poverty cause;Economically,we should continue to give full play to the anti-poverty advantages of the socialist Common ownership economic system;In terms of culture,vigorously develop cultural and educational undertakings to promote the vast number of impoverished people to lift themselves out of poverty and become rich;Internationally,we have actively carried out international poverty reduction cooperation aimed at building a Community of Common Destiny,and created a new Chinese style anti-poverty path.