Cohen’s Functional Explanation And Criticism:centered On <Karl Marx’s Theory Of History: A Defense>

"Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence" is a famous work of the famous Marxist GA Cohen,in which he deliberately and deliberately argues about the reliability of Marx’s historical theory and further expresses it.Viewpoints in this regard and define it as a novel and unique analytical approach to “functional interpretation”.Among the many defense theories of historical materialism,Cohen’s argumentation perspective and defense approach provide people with inspiring ideas.Since the birth of the theory,all kinds of comments and controversies have been constant for his bold and novel defense perspective.The birth of a new theory,it is necessary to start from the theory itself,the theoretical composition and the existence value.The original intention of the analytical method is to prove the correctness of historical theory.This thesis makes a research on Cohen’s functional interpretation and the defense process of historical materialism.Whether the functional interpretation is a causal explanation or an interpretation of the consequences,swings in such an argument.Put the method into historical theory and demonstrate the basic concepts of “productivity vs production relationship”,“economic base VS superstructure” and “social and material”.Among the many controversies,there are also big or small differences in the focus of domestic and foreign debates.It is worth noting that although there were many followers at the beginning of the theory,after the precipitation of the years,Cohen gave up his original philosophical stance and raised doubts about his own analytical methods.However,the shift of Cohen’s political position is not set.This paper believes that the functional interpretation theory pioneered by Cohen is still instructive for advancing and expanding the historical materialism.From the issues,viewpoints and methods,there are theoretical innovations and references.