Marx's Theory Of World History And Its Contemporary Significance

Marx's theory of world history is an important component of his historical materialism. Since the discovery of America, the whole world has gradually grown into an organic whole of economy. Politics and culture. With a philosopher's breadth of vision, Marx had a keen insight into this trend and revealed the transformation of history into world history. Marx critically assimilated the reasonable part of Hegel's dialectics on development of world history, discarded the factors of historical idealism, and brought about a series of revolutions in ideology of world history. These revolutions are mainly reflected in their proposals. That the bases for the formation of world history are the development of productive forces and extension of communication, and world history is the contradiction of productive forces and production relations. They also point out that capitalistic mode of production build in a world history, the trend of whose development is communism. They not only have broken the basis for historical idealism-the traditional ideas of class self-orientation and Europe as world center, and create a brand-new view of history, but also make us realize that the construction of theory of world history is combined with formulation of historical materialism. Marx emphasized that history is the one of industry and material production. He inquired into the general laws of development of world history and created the theory of "five forms". He also pointed the concepts such as "world market" and "international division of labor". From this, he founded and developed historical materialism. At the omp time, his analysis on world history is at the height of historical materialism from beginning to end. Historical materialism is the theoretical basis of Marx's analysis on world history. Marx's theory of world history further develops under the new circumstances of present era. Lenin analyzed and studied the features of his time, by which he probed the correct way for Russian revolution and construction, and formed the theory of imperialism. Mao zedong analyzed social trends and national conditions Chinese revolution was facing and formed the theory of new democratic revolution. Deng xiaoping analyzed and studied the national conditions of china in the background of world history, first scientifically and systematically answered the question how an undeveloped country like china could build socialism in the background of world history, and formed the theory of how to build the socialism having china's own distinguishing features. These theories inherit and develop Marx's theory of world history. Today, Marx world historical theory is facing challenge of globalization, but this theory is the strong tool of analyzing the question of globalization. Because the overall pattern that developed capitalistic countries play the leading role in the globalization doesn't change. " Rational economy person's " nature of gaining maximum capital interest doesn't change. Movement of capital as the driving force of globalization doesn't change. Also, globalization can't change the trend of the replacement of capitalism by socialism. Besides, speeding up of globalization can't eliminate the status of nation countries. In the background of world history, actively joining in the course of globalization, establishing socialistic market -oriented economy, carrying out open policy and strategy of strengthening a country's economy by science and education, are the strategic choice of development of china's society nowadays.