On Scientific And Technological Values Of Western Marxism

The scientific and technological values is a overall view of the purpose and importance on science and technology.It is the generalization of value orientation,value pursuit and value purpose,which guides the development and application of science and technology theoretically and practically.The scientific and technological values of Western Marxism accuses of Capitalist System controlling social production,social life and human behavior which also seeing as the solution which Western Marxism reflects the Modernity of western society.From defining the scientific and technological values of Western Marxism,it is good for uncovering the essence of science and contemporary values of science and technology.There are two main theoretical dimensionalities in Western Marxism,Humanistic and Scientistic Western Marxism had formed in the background of capitalist system transformation and science-technology revolution.Following the Historical Clues,synthesizing schools and themes as representative choosing principal,combing the Marxist Humanist’s and Scientists’ values theories on science and technology separately as research line,which are helpful for clarifying the features and limitations in both values theories.From these,summarizing the scientific and technological values of Western Marxism.Based on the commodity fetishism and Alienation theories of Marx,the Humanistic Western Marxism reflects the capitalism crisis through science and technology,beginning with finding the reasons of failure of the proletariat revolution in a humanism way.The scientific and technological values of Humanistic Western Marxism regards science and technology as the fundamental rationality and means by Capitalism,which had alienated in capitalistic control.It reflects the means values of science and technology in manufacture,ideology and everyday life,proposes a series of theories which deemed human to be core values,such as materialization,alienation and control theories.At the same time,it deviates Marx’s spirit to some degree which neglects the revolution force of science and technology themselves cause laying particular stress on humanism.Using the scientistic methods,Scientistic Western Marxism emphasize the scientificalness of Marxism in the dimensionality of scientism.It draws a clear distinction between science and ideology on the one hand,on the other hand restates the "productive powers" of science,in order to excavate the practical significance of science values.The scientific and technological values of Scientistic Western Marxism attach importance to the truthfulness values of science.It dissever the correlation of science and ideology by neglecting the initiative of science,which displays the truthfulness values of science while objects to capitalism science values.Criticizing the values of capitalism and inheriting critical spirit of Marx are commonly features of the scientific and technological values of Humanistic and Scientistic Western Marxism.At the same time,there are several differences caused by different theoretical logic and standpoint.Marxist Humanism primarily focuses on early Marx’s theories while Scientism focuses on the later philosophy theories,Humanists mainly shows a critical attitude to science and technology while scientist to be more optimistic,the main methodology of Humanism is subject-object dialectics but respective methods Scientists use according to their schools.The scientific and technological values of Western Marxism is the reflects on modernity,not only intensify the meanings of productivity values,but also expand the modernization and pluralism dimension of epistemology of science and technology.However,partialized vision and complanate research of these values theories led to rebel the scientific and technological values theory of Marxism.In conclusion,the scientific and technological values of Western Marxism is a kind of value theory which reflect on western modernization and capitalism crisis.It shows a contradictory values attitude by critique the capitalist scientific and technological values from dimensionality of humanism and scientism.Reflecting the rationality and limitations of the Western Marxism on scientific and technological values will lead a healthy view on scientific and technological values in developing the modern and powerful socialist state.