Illustrate The Influence Of Lock's Economic Theory To Marx

There is more than one hundred years when Marx's political and economic theory has been founded. After that, there are hundreds of theses which investigate its content and origin, of which are well known in the world. When experts talk about the origin of the theory, they usually refer to William·Petty, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, while ignore an important person in the field of English classical political and economics-- John Lock, which make us have an untrue fact that the formation of Marx's political and economic theory has noting to do with John Lock. The ignorance or even disconnect the relationship of Marx's political and economic theory and John Lock, whether it is deliberate or not, it will harmful to the investigation of Marx's theory.John Lock has a great influence on both fields of politics and economics, so that a lot of latter experts have absorbed his opinion to a great extent, one of them is Adam Smith. Marx's political and economic theory was borne in English classical political and economics, and was influenced by John Lock on many aspects. We can find that Marx has frequently mentioned John Lock in his treatises, and makes profound critic on Lock's theory. The important points in Lock's theory become the basis of Marx's political and economic theory. In another word, Lock has direct and great influence on Marx. For example, Marx has adopted many theories from Lock, such as"private ownership originates in the labor","the scared labor theory"and"labor and private property are natural rights", and then gradually become new and scientific opinions. The opinion of"private property is the result of labor"becomes the basic content in Marx's political and economic theory.Therefore we should not cast our eyes on some specific persons such as William·Petty, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, when we talk about the question of the origin of Marx's political and economic theory, instead of it, we should find clues in Marx's original books, and reflect the origin of Marx's political and economic theory correctly. The field of English classical political and economics doesn't only composed of three person, but a series of famous economics including Lock. The thesis will start from the point of the formation, content, and influence of Lock's theory and the critic of Marx to Lock's theory, trying to use the research method of original ecology (GONG Jing-cai Return to the Original Philosophy of Marxism: a New Attempt to the New Approach to Studies on Marxism Hebei Academic Journal Jan.,2005 Vol.25 No.1) to illustrate the influence of Lock's economic theory to Marx, thus take it for example to illustrate and investigate the correct development way of Marx's theory, and do something new for the returning of Marx, in order to look forward the more better thesis.