The Need Thought And It’s Contemporary Value In The German Ideology

In The German Ideology,Marx and Engels creatively put forward the essence of human beings from the perspective of historical materialism with needs as logical clue,elaborated the close connection between needs and social communication,social division of labor and social history,and constructed the general hierarchy of human needs.As the first driving force of the development of social production,need is not only the important content and realistic consideration of historical materialism,but also the theoretical and logical starting point of historical materialism.Since the new era,the unbalanced and inadequate development has become the biggest obstacle to satisfyin people’s need for a better life.People’s need for a better life have a high resonance with Marx’s needs thought in both the subject dimension and the object dimension,they are dialectical unity to a certain extent.Based on the classic text,the analysis of the needs thought in The German Ideology can add new content to the need thought of Marxism in the research,and also provide theoretical guidance for meeting people’s need for a better life.Under the guidance of historical materialism,this paper systematically analyzed the need thought of Marxism in The German Ideology and discusses its contemporary value.The paper is divided into five chapters.The first chapter introduces the research background,significance,research status at home and abroad,as well as the research difficulties and innovations.The second chapter discusses the significance of needs thought in the German Ideology and its important role in the formation of need thought.The third chapter explains the historical background and theoretical source of the formation of Marxist need thought in combination with the writing background and the writing process of the text.At the same time,in this chapter,it also makes an investigation of some classic texts of Marxist need thought before this work,and analyzes the historical process of the formation and development of Marxist need thought.The fourth chapter summarizes and presents the core viewpoints of Marxist needs thought bansed on the text,The core viewpoint of the need thought in the German Ideology can be summed up into four aspects:needs are human nature,needs are the direct driving force of social communication and social division of labor,needs are the fundamental motivation of human practical activities,and the development of human needs is hierarchical.The fifth chapter points out the necessity of the people’s good life needs by analyzing the internal relationship between the Marxist needs thought and the main contradictions of the new era,and finally according to the value implication reflected in the German Ideology,it provides the path analysis for the people’s good life needs.The sixth chapter is the conclusion of the paper.It briefly summarizes the main points of this paper and the limitations of research work,and puts forward suggestions for future work...