Marx’s View Of Capital And Its Contemporary Value

Capital is undoubtedly the core concept of Political Economics of Marx. All along, capital concept of Marx is the view of the capital’s economic level. But when we finished Marx’s overall investigation, you will find the capital concept of Marx is based on Marx’s economic theory and dialedtical analysis of capital but beyond this basis. Capital is no longer just economic terminology, but a philosophical connotation.Philosophical implication of this article makes Marx capital concept as the core, focusing on the five aspects:Marx capital’s historical background, theory origin, philosophical paradigm changing, philosophical connotation, theory and practice of development and its contemporary value and other issues. The key is to correct the capital concept of Marx philosophy, grasp the Marx capital’s truth, in order to understand correctly contemporary problems of capitalist society and the market economy construction of socialist, improve the ability to use capital, to achieve sustainable development, to provide theoretical guidance, to establish a "harmonious society".The formation of Marx’s concept of capital is closely connected with the background of his life and personal growth experience, the development and the reality of capitalism touches greatly on Marx. But the bourgeois theory of capital provided the theoretical basis for the forming of theory of Marx, Marx formed his own theory of capital after the reference and integrating the theory of bourgeois political economists, these are important practical and theoretical basis of Marx capital view.The paradigm of the philosophy of Marx capital view is a dynamic process of development, through the study of Marx’s texts, we divided the Marx concept of capital formation process into four stages. Young Marx was deeply affected by the philosophy of Hagel, he still regarded civil society from the "country" and "law" perspective. After experiencing the change from idealism to materialism of Marxism, around 1844, Marx began to analyse the economic critique of capitalism, achieved a big transition from the political critique to the transformation of the economic critique. During twenty years from 1845 to the "Das Kapital" published before, Marx’s view of practice has formed, which established the critique of capitalism on the basis of practical materialism. Marx’s capital theory has been mature after "Das Kapital" was published,and at the same time, Marx’s concept of capital also has been mature, Marx has formed the capital economic base beyond the philosophy connotation by based on the capital theory,Marx’s view of the capital, which is dialectical understanding from spreading over a wholearea from one point, from the concrete to the abstract, from criticism to reflection. As the core concept of Marx capital view, Capital has differences and close contact with money, private property and capitalism. So, for Marx, the capital has two dimensions. One is the capital dimension of productivity, the other is the relations of production. Thus, Marx capital view has the dialectical philosophy implication, one is the criticizing on capital, the other is praising the capital civilization.After the change of the times of baptism, Marx capital view has also been developed in theory and practice. Lenin after Marx, according to the reality of Russia, had a new understanding of capital, and put forward the thought of "use of the capital to serve socialism". According to the changes of capitalism in the west, The Marx doctrine further extended critical dimension of Marx capital view, critique of capitalism. Chinese Communist leaders were based on the China situation,proposed a "strategic thinking by making full use of the capital".Marx capital view also has important guiding significance to us today, it provides the theory basis on how to treat the problem in contemporary capitalism, to refute the "capitalism is human judgment, to eliminate the end of history" capitalist "alienation", to solve the problem of "Modernity" and other aspects. In the great practice of the socialist market economy in China, Marx capital view demands that we should emancipate the mind, make full use of the capital civilization, follow the logic of capital, play the role of capital, eliminate the disadvantages of capital, achieve sustainable development.