A Study Of Technological Thought In The Condition Of The Working Class In England

When Engels wrote "the state of the working class in England"(hereinafter referred to as "the state"),he was in the era of industrial revolution and technological innovation.As an important machine to promote the rapid development of modern industry,such as spinning machine and steam engine,they were widely and deeply used.For this important document,scholars at home and abroad have done a lot of research from different perspectives,such as the study of urban construction thought,the study of social livelihood issues and the study of workers’ living conditions.However,only a small number of scholars pay attention to many of the ideas about technology,and few of them conduct a comprehensive and systematic study.As a matter of fact,when Engels wrote the situation,it involved a lot of technology and its development ideas,such as industrial development,urban construction,changes in class structure and so on.From a deep analysis,we can see that the change and development of technology and its historical influence are one of the important clues of the rich ideas contained in the state.In this work,Engels shows the important role of technology in the process of British social development step by step through the specific and comprehensive analysis of technological change and application.From the concrete analysis of the influence of technological change on many aspects of Britain,this paper expounds the development of modern productive forces,the establishment of modern relations of production and the establishment and operation of capitalist social form determined by them,and preliminarily shows the basic thought of historical materialism,which is helpful for the later establishment of Marxist historical materialism and the improvement of Engels’technological thought in his later years It has important historical significance.Therefore,this paper makes a detailed and complete analysis of the main content,internal logic and historical significance of the technical thought in the status quo from the horizontal and vertical dimensions.This paper is divided into four parts.The first part analyzes the background of the research on the subject of technology in the state,including the background of the times and the theoretical background,which is the basis of Engels’ initial formation of technological thought.The second part analyzes the specific impact of technological change and application in the state on British social development,which mainly includes the impact of technological change on British Industrial Revolution,the impact of technological change on British social development,and the impact of technological change on British social development In the third part,based on the content elaborated in the second part,it analyzes the internal logic of Engels’ technological thought in the state,that is,the role of modern social technology in promoting the development of modern productive forces and the establishment of modern production relations,and on this basis,it probes into the present situation The fourth part analyzes the historical significance of Engels’ technology thought in the situation.Engels’ thinking and Research on technology has important historical significance,which not only laid the foundation for Marx to establish historical materialism,but also for the perfection and development of Engels’technology thought in his later years The development of revolutionary practice laid a theoretical foundation.