On Wallerstein's View Of World History

Since Research on Foreign Marxism brought Wallerstein World-system Analysis into its problem domain,it has been regarded naturally as an analytical framework including“Conceptual Function on Methodology”.The consciousness of problems in this thesis is derived from criticism – the realistic demand that the object of study shows in the progress of development of this subject.From the presentation of theory,the primary and basic way to show the critical domain about Wallerstein World-system Analysis is“Wallerstein’s view of world history”.From the logic of theory,as a kind of “criticism of modernity”,the “world government of socialism” being the orientation of the meaning,Wallerstein World-system Analysis clarifies the precondition of “modern”—“time and space of world system”—and tries to save the “neglected problems,delimits the boundary—“opening up social science”—and endeavours to protest against “false epistemology”.During this period,Wallerstein intends to bridge the internal differences of sociology from “Comte—Durkheim” and “Weber” via Marx,and to bridge history and sociology through “historical analysis”,so as to link up the natural science and social science in the framework of “world system”.While the “greatest common divisor” of“Marx”,“historical analysis” and “world system” is “world history”.That is to say,“world history” is the “master switch” to accomplish these three interlinked tasks.Thus,Wallerstein’s view of world history becomes the “focus” of his critical comments on the world-system analysis.In Marx’s opinion,the thought of world history,as a “criticism of world history”,which treats the “relationship” in reality as the precondition,regards the “dialectical unity of certainty and uncertainty” as the boundary and considers the “people in reality” as the meaning,demonstrates the high ground of truth and morality of view of world history—“people” being the essence,“relationship”being the order,and grasping the main points。Combining the presentation and logic of“world-system analysis”,we can find that the “meaning” of “world government of socialism”—"rebuilding social science”—understands the hollow world history,which leads to the missing of “people in reality” of Wallerstein,and the “feeling” of “historical person of world”is abandoned beyond the splendid “world-system analysis”;the“precondition” of “time and space of world system”—“analysis of holism”—is aware of the solid world history,which gives rise to the missing of “relationship” in reality of Wallerstein,and “dialectical movement” is hung between consistent “time and space of world system”;the “boundary” of “opening up social science”—“permanent uncertainty”—displays the dualization of world history,which results in the missing of“inevitable connection” of Wallerstein,and the contribution non-European civilizations makes to the world history is buried within the countless “boundary of world system”.Compared with Marx’s thought of world history: on the level of “truth”,the “world” of world-system analysis is “halved”,and the “view of history” is “still”;on the level of“morality”,the view of world history implicated in the world-system analysis is “hollow”.According to the critical comment on Wallerstein’s view of world history,its fundamental purpose is to show socialist view of world history with Chinese characteristics in the New Era.Faced with the “Great Changes Unseen in a Century” in the world historical progress of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,only by elaborating the view of world history in the New Era based on Marx’s thought of world history at the beginning,can we realize dreams and desires with significance in the New Era among the history and reality in China’s peaceful rise,and persist in the high ground of truth and morality caused by the view of world history in the New Era on the core of “A Community with a Shared Future for Mankind”.