Marx's Social Capital And Its Contemporary Development

Marx’s thought of social capital is the inevitable result of its own logicdevelopment of Marx’s capital category and is the common consequences by people’sconstant deconstruction, the criticism of the original theory and science of rationalchoices. Marx’s thought of social capital is the improvement and also the theoreticaldevelopment for Marx’s capital category. Therefore, for studying the Marx’s thought ofsocial capital, we must put the research perspective in the whole thoughts developmentof Marx.Marx’s thought of social capital conceived and produced based on the developmentof the theory of Marx’s capital category, which is varied along with the ages presentingcapital forms in different periods. Material capital, physical capital, human capital,cultural capital and social capital are all the inevitable products of the development ofcapital category, which representing one type of capital force of different capital forms.Under the thought of Marxist Philosophy, social capital theory realized the shiftingtowards from economics under the view of capital theory to sociology, philosophy,culturology and so on, which achieved the transition of the theoretical study frommicroscopic view to macroscopic view. On the one hand, Marx’s thought of socialcapital has a sufficient critique for the capital crisis of the age and announces the diverseand multi-dimensional trend of capital development; on the other hand, the socialcapital in the new era as a kind of new research paradigm, which gets involved in everyfield of social activities in the way of universe and diversity, causes the conflicts oftheoretical study. Essentially, social capital and capital are homogeneous. Marx’s socialcapital throughout reflects the intrinsic nature of the capital. On the one hand, it showsthe nature that human being tries to pursue the maximum of purpose and utility; on theother hand, it reflects that human being must break the limit of capital, move towards the direction of generating and start to genuinely pursue the authentic freedom andconsciousness and independent features.The paper taking the Marxist philosophy as the theoretical background, byinterpreting capital category, communication, practice, social relations, heterizationtheory and real human being, etc, explores and unscrambles Marx’s thought of socialcapital to interpret how it is produced and realized and to make a theory consensus fromthe perspective of social capital in the academia. Meanwhile, the paper also unscramblesand makes a summary for western social capital theory and builds up the internaleffective connection with Marx’s thought of social capital, which realizes the Marx’sthought of social capital with the feature of post-modernity and interpret the status andfunctions of the thought in China’s harmonious society.