Marx And Engels' View Of The People And Contemporary Response

Marx and Engels’ s view on people was built by Marx and Engels through criticizing and absorbing thought of great thinkers of the past while following the historical materialism.It’s Marx and Engels’ basic opinion and basic view on people and the important part of Marxist theoretical system.China is going through a great change rarely seen in a century.Domestically,multiple social problems emerge in the process of socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics.Internationally,the struggle over ideology is still severe.Researching Marx and Engels’ view on people will provide theoretical thinking for solving domestic social problems,as well as resist the erosion from wrong ideological trend to Chinese socialist ideology and enhance the ruling status of CPC as the governance party.Marx and Engels’ view on people was studied from the following aspects:Firstly,the content of Marx and Engels’ s view on people is: People are the creator of history,the principal part of practice,the principal part of value and the principal part of rights.The author analyzed the western new materialism and positivism,technological determination theory of analytic school,egoism and thought of human rights being higher than sovereignty while stating the main content,and the author also compare those with Marx and Engels’ s view on people.Secondly,verified how Marxist party expand the connotation and category of Marx and Engels “people”.Analyzed class strata of “people” delimited by Marxist parties.Who were people? Why were all persons people?Thirdly,in the new view on people of Marxist parties: wrong social thought impacting Chinese ideology greatly was summed up,such as historical nihilism,heroic historical idealism and theory of the omnipotence of productive forces,utilitarianism and pragmatism surviving in China,which all needed attention from the view on people of Chinese Marxist parties.Marx and Engels’ s view on people lasts so long because Marxist parties are always updating it with the development of times.The Communist Party of China,as a long-term ruling party and Marxist party,always upholds Marxism and carries forward and innovates Marxist theory based on requirements of the times in practice.“Adhere to people-centered development” proposed by Marxist parties in the new era is unarguably the best response to the theoretical innovation of Marx and Engels’ s view on people.