Studies On Marx's World-history Theory And Its Contemporary Value Under The Background Of Globalization

Since the 1990's, the tide of the age - globalization, with an extremely sudden and swift power, which could not be impeded, influences and impacts all the nations and races in the world and their development in realms such as economy, politics, culture, society, etc by its unprecedented width, strength, depth and density, and the native history of each nation or race is changing toward the world history under the strong push of globalization. The fulfillment of globalization calls the scientific instruction of the globalization theories. Marx's world-history theory, the treasures, which are deeply and silently hidden for several years, are dig out and reopened to solve numerous and complicated globalization problems, and bloom a dazzling brilliance at the age of globalization.It was the 1960's that the overseas scholars started to pay attention to Marx's world-history theory and configure more different theories about globalization, which have all kinds of special features that have all kinds of special features. Although some researchers have highlighted the pattern question of the world history in the certain sides, they can't hold the complete picture and the deep meaning of"the world-history". Although some scholars carry out their research in the way, which they combine the research of globalization with putting forward, the critique to capitalism, but their critique didn't touch the basis of capitalist system and appeared palely and weakly. Since the 1990's, along with integration of world economy and the deepen the process of globalization, the scholars of our country started to pay more attention to Marx's world-history theory. Professors YeXian-ming, Yang-geng, FengZi-yi discussed the meaning of methodology and practical guide of this theory from respectively different angle in the aspects of correctly understanding and dealing with the relationship between capitalism and socialism, guiding contemporary social development and the Chinese modernized practice. Totally speaking, their research is only in macroscopic and general analysis and some important questions need further and deeply research.We inquire Marx's world-history deeply in order to highly raise its contemporary value and let it plays the instructive role well in the practice of globalization, especially in socialist practice which has the Chinese character. This essay is on the basis of the methods and results of research of previous scholars and takes a broad view of the great realistic background of globalization and the Chinese contemporary development. Some techniques of research have been used in the essay, example for method of documents, method of comparative research, method of synthesis and induction. And the thorough and careful inspection and the discussion have been carried on in the multi-aspects to this theory. So that the structure of this essay can be more novel and orderly, and the contents can be more richer and detailed. Therefore the essay may well highlight its theoretical purpose of guiding the Chinese practice of modernized construction under the realistic background of globalization.Any real philosophies are the primes of spirits of the age, any important philosophy theories are the needs of the situation, which should be adapted by the age, and can't escape from the soil the age provides, and can't surmount the boundary the age delimits. The first and second parts of main text have carefully inspected the historical background, the thought origin, the primary contents of Marx's world-history theory and this theory has some surmountable points in comparison with Hegel's theory through deeply studying some texts, example for"Philosophy of history"from Hegel,"Germany Ideology"and"the Communist Manifesto"from Marx and Engels and adopting methods of research, example for contrast and analysis, synthesis and induction. Since the 16th century, especially after the British Industrial Revolution in the 1760's, along with the confirmation of the capitalism production mode, boundary between races and regions are broken, the history of a race or a region starts changing toward the world history. It provided a realistic foundation for formation of Marx's world-history theory. And the achievement of the theories from Hegel provided the resources of Marx's world-history theory. Hegel's ideas about the world history deeply influenced Marx and Engels, but Marx's world-history theory did not inherit Hegel's theories directly, but were built upon the abandonment and surmount of the logic view to history after finishing peeling off the kernel of Hegel's reasonable thoughts. Marx's world-history theory mainly involve the following four aspects: The world history was configured on the basis of the development of the productivity during the wide spreading association process of all the races; After the world history configured, the relationship between the world history and national history is the relationship of"the whole"and"the part"; The dialectical unity of the nationality and internationality of the contradictory movement between productivity and production relation is the core of the world history; The arrival of the communism, which means the people have real liberation and they can develop freely and completely, is just the realization of the world history.There are correspondences between western globalization theories and Marx's world-history theory, there are also essential differences. The third part of main text has made thorough comparative research between the two kinds of theories. With the foundation of Marx's world-history theory, treating the theories of globalization from the western scholars dialectically and thinking over the critical reflection of the globalization from the western Marxists, which is helpful for us to control the developing situation of the globalization properly. We can also in the meantime deeply understand the progress of the world history and the direction of the development of communism.The fourth part of main text studied and discussed the question about Marx's world-history theory is a single line theory or a multi-line theory in the process of historical development, which is still a hot point and focus to talk about and to study and discuss in the sphere of learning in recent years. Marx's imagination of"Kaftans glen", about which Russia may jump over the capitalism, was the theoretical reason, which caused this problem. Investigating this theoretical imagination more thoroughly is totally helpful to answer this question about single line theory or multi-line theory more scientifically and legitimately.The fifth part of main text has excavated the contemporary value of Marx's world-history theory. So its instructive function can be better exerted in the fulfillment of the globalization. It not only expands the new state to research the world history, opens our visual field to observe society history widely, but also enriches and deepens the historical views of materialism. It has necessary and profound theoretical and realistic significance in leading the developing countries to handle the affairs of the globalization, watching out for the erosion of the new liberalism to our country, persisting the developing road of socialism with Chinese special features and accelerating the development of all the people.The Marx's world-history theory is the great treasure house of scientific theory and its many precious thoughts need further exploration. Moreover the practice of globalization is unceasingly developing and it will promptly add new contents to this theory and make this theory along maintain the theoretical state that keeps paces with time guiding the reality of globalization, which is unceasingly developing.