On The Reconstruction Of Alan Wood 's Historical Materialism

With the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the theoretical works of Marxism and its critique of capitalism is more important than any previous stage. Alan Wood · Always insist on historical materialism to analyze and judge the international situation, the development of a variety of historical materialism in Western thought and interaction of the process, means trying to "rebuild" historical materialism, historical materialism to recover rationalism qualities.In this paper, Alan Wood · Historical Materialism "reconstruction" exposition, were launched from the following aspects. First, the analysis in the social structure and class structure of capitalist society changed radically in the background, was to get rid of Western Left Wood theoretical Predicament thought, inherited the idea of Marxist historical materialism, Althusser criticized the structure of the decision on history, Thompson discusses the historical and cultural theory. Secondly, at the time of the theoretical background, discusses the Wood of historical materialism "reconstruction" of the overall content, re productive forces and production relations, the nature of the economic base and superstructure, the history, the history of the development of power and capitalism and socialism contents defined. Finally, he pointed out the limitations of guiding significance Alan Wood · Historical Materialism "reconstruction" of ideas and "Reconstruction" of ideas, and inspiration for promoting development and democracy of today.