| Contemporary world is in a period of great historical change,showing uncertainty,complexity and great changes that have not been seen in a century.However,behind these randomness and uncertainty,there are the essential laws of world history.Contemporary world history is by no means fragmented and discontinuous,but has an internal development mechanism and law.The development mechanism and law of contemporary world history are deeply reflected in the historical chain of world history development,in the structure laid out by contemporary world history,in the contradictory movement encountered by contemporary world history,and in the practical driving force of contemporary world history movement.The practice of contemporary world history shows the future development direction of world history.This paper attempts to show the overall picture of the great changes in contemporary world history that have not been seen in a century from the four aspects of history,structure,contradiction and power,in order to grasp the practical logic of the development of contemporary world history.It not only shows the vitality of historical materialism,especially Marx’s world history theory,but also tries to make a theoretical explanation of the practical logic of contemporary world history.Firstly,different perspectives have different interpretations of the practical logic of the development of world history.Based on historical materialism,this paper studies the understanding of practical logic of world history from different theoretical perspectives.The view of rationality represented by Kant and Hegel holds that world history is the development and Realization of rationality;Civilization theory takes civilization as the axis of the development of world history,and explains the practice of world history from the rise and fall of world civilization,the cultural gene of human society and the conflict of civilization;World system theorists understand the practice of world history as the generation process of the world system dominated by capitalism.Historical materialism points out that the development of world historical practice is not the externalization of spirit,the change of civilization,nor the complete control of capitalism,but is constantly generated in the contradictory movement of productive forces and production relations.The development of productive forces and universal communication have promoted the generation of world history,in which the expansion of capital is an important driving force.The development of world history gave birth to two opposing classes.The bourgeoisie created the world according to its own appearance,which also produced the main force to break the capital world-the proletariat.Only in the practice of world history can the world proletariat unite and change the world on the basis of the development of world productivity.This is the theoretical basis for analyzing the practical logic of contemporary world history.Secondly,contemporary world history is the result of the practice of world history.By investigating the historical premise of contemporary world history,we can roughly divide the development context of world history into three historical periods: the colonial period,after the primitive accumulation of capital and bloody overseas expansion,laid the material foundation for the development of capitalism,the feudal social relations of production were overthrown,and the western capitalist countries were established one after another.Under the political guarantee of the capitalist system,the rise of the industrial revolution opened the way for capital to monopolize the global market.In the period of hegemonism,capitalism entered the stage of imperialism.As the vast numbers of colonial and semi colonial countries gained independence through revolutionary struggle,capitalism continued to parasitize in the form of neocolonialism,which was recognized politically,stripped economically and enslaved spiritually.The conflict of ideology reached its peak in the bipolar pattern between the United States and the Soviet Union,while the United States became the world overlord and controlled the world’s economic and financial lifeline under the promotion of the scientific and technological revolution.With the end of the cold war and the acceleration of the process of world economic globalization,digital capitalism was also born with the revolution of information technology.It continued to absorb the labor value of people all over the world and continuously exhausted the space for capitalist expansion.At the same time,a number of developing countries have sprung up in globalization,especially the socialist forces represented by China,which have been growing in the process of world history and strengthened the development force of world socialism.The daily trend of capitalist influence is in sharp contrast to the enhancement of socialist power.Thirdly,it analyzes the structure of contemporary world historical practice from the four aspects of world politics,economy,culture and science and technology.First,world multipolarization is the political pattern of contemporary world historical practice.The change of national power balance is the most revolutionary factor in the world political pattern.The rise of developing countries and the diversification of world political centers have effectively promoted the development of the world political pattern towards democratization and equality.World multipolarization has provided a political stage for the practice of contemporary world history.Second,economic globalization is an irreversible trend of the times in contemporary world historical practice.The development of global productivity promotes the world to become a community of closely related interests.Nonwestern countries have gradually become an important engine of world economic growth in globalization.The reform of global production relations based on global productivity is also accelerating.Third,cultural diversity is the cultural floor of contemporary world historical practice.Cultural diversity is the basic cultural pattern of world history.Driven by the development of global productivity,cultural exchanges and communication between countries have promoted the development of world culture,created new development momentum,and formed a colorful cultural base of world historical practice.Fourth,social informatization is the technical direction of contemporary world historical practice.The development and universal application of information technology has brought about profound changes in the mode of production and lifestyle,and also had a significant impact on the way of national governance and international security.The information technology revolution plays an important role in promoting the practice of contemporary world history.Fourthly,analyze the contradictions in the practice of contemporary world history.The main contradiction in contemporary world history is the contradiction between the development of global productive forces and the hegemonic world pattern.The world development under the guidance of capitalist hegemony has been expanding economically by seizing the labor value of the world’s people,resulting in the widening gap between the rich and the poor around the world;Advocating the uniqueness of the western capitalist democratic political system politically and exporting the capitalist modernization model to the world has caused serious obstacles to the choice of modernization suitable for each country in the world;Promote the truth of "universal values" in culture,import the concepts of consumerism,privatization and liberalization into the world,and aggravate the confusion and ideological conflict of world values with discourse hegemony and cultural hegemony;In globalization,developed capitalist countries degenerate into the initiator of anti-globalization in order to reshape the pattern of globalization and become the leader of globalization again,which hinders the development of global productivity.Fifthly,it analyzes the driving force of contemporary world historical practice.The limitations of capital itself lead to many difficult difficulties in the current world historical practice.The generation of world history and the development of global productivity are only the "side effects" of capital expansion,which cannot become the lasting driving force for the development of world historical practice.The general trend of the development of contemporary world history shows that the driving force of the development of contemporary world history practice needs to realize triple transformation.First,the transformation of material power from capital driven to the global productivity development of inclusive,balanced,mutually beneficial and winwin;Second,the institutional power transformation from the hegemonic world order to the global governance system of co construction,consultation and sharing;Third,the transformation from superiority and conflict of civilizations to equality,inclusiveness and mutual learning of civilizations.Its core is the transformation from capital centered to working people centered.Its inevitability lies in that the labor value produced by the working people is the foundation of the development of world history,and the development of productive forces and the healthy and sound development of world history must depend on and require the working people to be the center.Sixth,on the basis of investigating the premise,structure,contradiction and driving force of contemporary world history practice,this paper expounds the practical logic direction of the future development of contemporary world history.First of all,the pursuit of "human liberation" is the value construction of contemporary world historical practice.With the requirement of human’s all-round development of "quasi subject",surpass the atomic individual of capitalism,and explore the direction of moving towards "human society" in the practice of contemporary world history.Secondly,based on the practice of multiple choices of China’s road to modernization,explore the construction of a new civilization that transcends the modernity of capital and creates a new form of human civilization.Finally,jointly build the world order construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.Through the joint construction of a community with a shared future for mankind by the people of all countries in the world,we will build a new world order that meets the requirements of the development of contemporary world productivity. |