Marx And Engels' National Theory And Its Contemporary Value

There are two significant discoveries in Marx’s whole life. Firstly, Marx revealed the law of development of the human society, and established the historical materialism. Hence, the researchers have studied the human histories and gained the scientific methods and research perspectives. Secondly, Marx revealed the law of the modern capitalist society and discovered the law of the surplus value about the capitalist mode of production. In other words, they are the basic of the Marxism system. After the establishment of the historical materialism and surplus value, Marx drew the conclusion that the capitalism would be replaced by the socialism and communism eventually. And the state, as a tool of the class rule, will come to an end after different reigns and times. This is the summary of Marx and Engels state theory.As the foundation of Marx’s theory, the characteristics of the formation of Marx and Engels’ s theory also experienced several stages of development. After the foundation of the historical materialism, the state became the vital problem and should be solved immediately. The appearance of the states was an important phenomenon in the evolution of human civilization, the state never existed before, but it was the product of the development in the human society. So, before the state formed, there were many problems, such as: in what kind of situation the human society was, how the state came into being, how many social pattern it experienced, where the state ended in, and so on. All the problems should be solved by Marx and Engels state theory.They gave the answers in their research and with scientific methods, but their answers scattered in Marx’s works, so we needed to re-organize and induce them. It contained the substantial ideas of the materialism in their theory. With their theory, we can not only verify the scientific nature of the historical materialism, and strengthen and develop Marxism materialism, but also can respond the theoretical and practical challenges which should be faced in Marx and Engels state theory from the analysis of Marx’s classic text, meanwhile, it provides us with the beneficial reference in the national development and socialist Modernization and has important theoretical significance and practical value.