Perspective Of Historical Materialism Research Articles

The Value of ‘Modernization of Common Prosperity for All’ and its Practical Path

The realization of common prosperity is not only the ardent aspiration of the people as a whole, but also the essential requirement of Chinese modernization and the unremitting goal of the Communist Party of China. Over the past hundred years, the CPC has, in the course of practical exploration of Chinese modernization, realized a critical transcendence of capitalism's modernization of material expansion, and created a modernization path of common prosperity for all people. The practice of common prosperity reveals the inherent spirit of the Chinese road, showing the values that are different from those of Western-style modernization: affluence, justice, harmony and development. From the perspective of historical materialism, the modernization path of the common prosperity of all the people rejects the logic of social division of capital, adheres to the concept of building and sharing, and effectively promotes social justice, which is in line with the criteria of social progress and the value orientation of human historical development.

The Path of Constructing Cultural Confidence under the View of Materialistic History

Cultural self-confidence is the most basic, deepest, and lasting force in the development of a country and a nation. Cultivating and constructing cultural self-confidence requires scientific theoretical guidance. As a theory revealing the general laws of human social development, the Marxist materialist concept of history is a great “cognitive tool” for analyzing and solving social problems, which not only provides a profound theoretical and philosophical foundation for firming cultural self-confidence but also provides a scientific methodological approach for fostering cultural self-confidence. The General Secretary has mentioned cultural self-confidence many times, pointing out that culture is a kind of soft power of the country and explaining the importance of culture. Cultural self-confidence from the perspective of historical materialism is embodied both at the level of principles and at the level of methodology. The basic principles of the materialist concept of history are the theoretical guidance of cultural self-confidence. At the same time, cultural self-confidence under the guidance of the materialist concept of history is also of great significance to the construction of a strong modern socialist country.

Philosophical Study of "People-Centered" Thought in the Perspective of Marx's Thought

Tracing back to the source of the theory, the human thought explains the dialectical nature of human development from the perspective of historical materialism, which is an important theoretical basis for China to adhere to the "people-centered" development thought. Therefore, based on China's national conditions in the new era, exploring the important significance of "people's all-round development" in the "people-centered" development thought is conducive to exploring and sorting out the philosophical implications and contemporary value of Marx's "people-centered" thought.

The Periodization and Analytical Framework of Economic Long Waves: A New Study from the Perspective of Historical Materialism

Proceeding from the perspective of historical materialism, this article examines technological revolution and industrial revolution as intermediate-level concepts for analyzing economic long waves, and reconstructs the political economy analysis framework of long-wave theory. Based on this framework, and in order to avoid a “mismatch” between economic long waves and the cycle of technological revolution, this article modifies the traditional method of periodizing economic long waves from trough to trough, instead employing the method of periodizing them from peak to peak as proposed by Perez. In this way, this article alters the periodization of economic long waves from the traditional five “inverted V-shaped” long waves to six “V-shaped” long waves. Within each industrial revolution, the technological revolution and institutional change that occur correspond to two “W-shaped” long-wave trends. Economic long waves are thus shown to be in essence external manifestations of the trend of evolution of the mode of production. In the final analysis, long-wave theory should not only reveal the decisive role of productivity and the mechanism of interaction between technology and the economy, but should also reveal the long-term changes undergone by politics and culture, and the laws that apply to them.

Research on the Practical Path of Ecological Construction from the Perspective of Historical Materialism

Research on the Practical Path of Ecological Construction from the Perspective of Historical Materialism

Shrapnels: Jacques Derrida’s Theory and Practice

Jacques Derrida’s lectures on Theory and Practice leave a lot to be desired from the perspective of historical materialism. Yet, one can nonetheless find in them the germ of a genuine understanding of materialism. More specifically, following the systematic use of the word “enigma” in the text, I show that this term serves as the heu-ristic device for articulating an originally Derridean materialism, one which I name “enigmatic materialism,” and which, I argue, is genuinely collective, insofar as it opposes any form of monism. Moreover, this materialism has profound repercussions for the concept of hope developed in these lectures. Hope, from the perspective of an “enigmatic materialist,” becomes a collective endeavour that avoids the pitfalls of solipsistic individualism through the joint effort of the subject and its/the Other.

The Role of Mass Subjectivity in the Ujamaa Movement from the Perspective of Historical Materialism

The Role of Mass Subjectivity in the Ujamaa Movement from the Perspective of Historical Materialism

The Theory of Communicative Justice and its Practical Reference Significance from the Perspective of Historical Materialism

The Theory of Communicative Justice and its Practical Reference Significance from the Perspective of Historical Materialism

Meta-Universe from the Perspective of Historical Materialism: Formation Mechanism, Critical Dimension and Reconstruction Path

The meta-universe is an object world in which reality and virtuality are linked by science and technology. The meta-universe originated from philosophers' questioning of the universe and was driven by the modernity of capitalism. It realizes the threefold satisfaction in the philosophical sense, but hinders the all-round and free development of human beings, promotes the instrumental rationality but weakens the value rationality. To reconstruct the value of the meta-universe in the socialist context, we must adhere to the path of scientific and technological innovation oriented by people's interests. Consolidate the position of Marxism and accelerate the establishment of anti-monopoly system in digital world governance.

A Study on the Thought of the Community of Shared Future for Mankind from the Perspective of Historical Materialism

China's proposal to build a community with a shared future for mankind is a great concept based on the basic viewpoint 
 of historical materialism, and it is the only way for human society to enter a "true community". The idea of a community with 
 a shared future for mankind inherits and develops the basic viewpoints of the Marxist world history view; upholds the peoplecentered idea of the Marxist mass history view; provides "Chinese wisdom" for the establishment of a new international order and 
 solving international problems.

An Analysis of the Great Party Founding Spirit from the Perspective of Historical Materialism

The great spirit of founding the party is the spiritual pillar on which the Communist Party of China depends for its survival and development, and it is also the essence of the times that the Communist Party of China has continuously enriched and developed in history and reality. From the perspective of historical materialism, consider the great spirit of party building. The formation of the great spirit of party building has its internal formation mechanism. The historical regularity of the development of the party building practice of the Communist Party of China is its practical basis; the cultural inheritance of Chinese Marxist scientific theory It is its theoretical source; the subjective initiative of the masses to participate in the construction of the Communist Party of China is its realistic source. In the great spirit of founding the party, "adhering to the truth and adhering to ideals" has value logic, "practicing original intention and taking on mission" has practical logic, "not afraid of sacrifice, heroic struggle" has development logic, and "loyalty to the party and living up to the people" has the main body logic. To carry forward and practice the spirit of the great party building, we must adhere to the leadership of the party, adhere to the supremacy of the people, and insist on theoretical innovation, so as to enhance the value leadership, theoretical execution and practical transformation of the great spirit of party building.

The Critical Dimension and Power of Social Semiotics: An Examination from the Perspective of Historical Materialism

Marx’s profound analysis of such social signs as commodity, money, and capital shows that inversion and negation are universal and rule-governed social signs and that social signs attain historical characteristics in certain social formations. The basic contradiction arising from human practice, i.e., their contradictory movement of objectification and non- objectification, is determined by the dialectical nature of practice, that is, by the relationship of negativity as a medium, and is the concrete expression of the dialectics of negativity in signs. The critique of social semiotics from the perspective of historical materialism is based on practice and reality, and points to the future; it is revolutionary and constructive. At present, the scientific construction of social semiotics can not only promote the development of semiotics, but can also be an important step in deepening historical materialism.

China: In the Perspective of Historical Materialism

Much is being written currently about the rise of China as an economic power, and about the nature of China's present- day social, economic and political reality. Most of this literature, however, while richly descriptive, does not seek grounding in an organized, theoretical, framework for the study of social structure and evolution. A rigorous re-development of historical materialist theory, in the Marxist tradition, can help in situating China's social formation within both the five millennia of Chinese history, on the one hand; and the political economy of the capitalist world system within which China's current development proceeds, on the other. A key finding is that the timeline for thinking about the nature and logic of a country's position and direction of change is itself relative to that country's period of historical existence — a relativity that is particularly significant for China.

The Marxian Concept of Justice Based on Historical Materialism

The question of “Marx and justice” has been a key theoretical and practical issue that has attracted academic attention and discussion both at home and abroad since the birth of Marxism, and in particular since the 1970s. From the perspective of historical materialism, Marx’s concept of justice is rooted in material practice rather than abstraction; it is the organic union of distributive justice and productive justice that transcends the limitations of traditional ideas on distributive justice. Marx’s concept of justice as the union of distributive justice and productive justice is mainly reflected in his Capital. Allen Wood and Z.I. Husami, with other Western scholars, have engaged in a dispute over the question of “Marx and justice.” Wood and Husami’s views, though quite different, are confined to the theory of distributive justice. John Rawls’ justice theory, which emphasizes equity, has also failed to reach the lofty heights of Marx’s theory of justice. Marx’s concept of justice, as developed in Capital, has the “full and free development of every individual” at its core and integrates distributive justice and productive justice. It transcends the abstract concept of justice of the bourgeoisie that centering on equal rights reflects the dialectical unity of historical logic, the logic of reality and the logic of theory and practice.

Revisiting Bruner's Legacy from the Perspective of Historical Materialism.

The book Jerome S. Bruner beyond 100: cultivating possibilities (2015) is a celebration and a continuing development of Jerome S. Bruner's contribution in psychology. As a review of this book, this article aims to commemorate Bruner's legacy by developing it further. The main content of the book is summarized into four issues: culture and language, narrative and folk psychology, dilemmas and shared dilemmas, subjectivity and intersubjectivity. Hegel's contribution to 'social reality' and Karl Marx's historical materialism are introduced to discuss the relation between the individual and his world, which is fundamental in Bruner's psychological inquiry and also a key question underlying the four issues. In the horizon of the ontological revolution launched by historical materialism, the difference between sensuous consciousness and pure consciousness and the dynamic process of social discourse interweaving sensuous consciousness and ideology is discussed and revisited. By integrating nature and society on the dimension of historicity, historical materialism can inspire psychology to understand the historical construction of human existence.

Racialized capitalism: An account of its contested origins and consolidation

Undergirded by the perspective of historical materialism in dialogue with black Marxism and Marxist feminism, this article constructs an account demonstrating the significance of racism to the making of modernity. The analytic returns of unthinking Eurocentric sociologies in favour of a more unified historical social scientific approach include the unmasking of the intimate relationship between capitalism, class struggles and racism, particularly how capitalist rule advanced through a process of differentiation and hierarchical re-ordering of the global proletariat. From the 17th-century colonization of Virginia to Victorian Britain and beyond, racism formed an indispensable weapon in the armoury of the state elites, used to contain the class struggles waged by subaltern populations with a view to making the system safe for capital accumulation. Additionally, situating an account of racism within the unfolding story of historical capitalism as against the postcolonial tendency to locate it within the civilizational encounter between the West and the Rest helps make transparent the plurality of racisms, including the racialization of parts of the European proletariat. This explanation of the structuring force of racism and the differentiated ways in which the proletariat has been incorporated into capitalist relations of domination has important implications for emancipatory politics. A race-blind politics risks leaving untouched the injustices produced by historic and contemporaneous racisms. Instead, an alternative approach is proposed, one that invites movements to wilfully entangle demands for economic justice with anti-racism and thereby embrace and demystify the differences inscribed into the collective body of the proletariat by capitalism.

Rameau's Experiments in <em>Génération harmonique</em> and His Material Mangle

Rameau's Experiments in Génération harmonique and His Material Mangle Abigail D. Shupe (bio) In Jean-Philippe Rameau's 1737 Treatise, Génération harmonique, he instructs the reader to conduct the following experiment: Suspend a pair of [tongs] from a fairly thin string, each end of which you apply to each ear. Strike it. You will distinguish at first only a confusion of sounds____But as the higher sounds become extinguished imperceptibly as the sound diminishes in strength, the lowest sound … begins to predominate in the ear.1 [End Page 26] Rameau asks his reader to conduct this and six other experiments in order to demonstrate the natural origin of harmony. At first glance this experiment with kitchen utensils and twine seems unrelated to Rameau's theory of the fundamental bass. However, when placed in the context of the history of scientific instruments and experimental practice, Rameau's invitation figures as part of a trend in treatises from this period toward experimentation with diverse materials.2 In a certain sense, the materials and nature of the experiment connect Rameau's work with Sir Isaac Newton's 1704 treatise Opticks. While Rameau almost certainly did not read Opticks, his experiments somewhat align Génération harmonique with this treatise and other works of French Newtonianism, a trend marked by enthusiasm for Newtonian science in the 1730s.3 Rameau's experiments provide an opportunity to study his work from the perspective of historical materialism, focusing less on his theoretical principles and more on his physical objects, instruments, and practices. This perspective aligns with recent trends in the history of science. Scholars including Simon Schaffer and Andrew Pickering have studied how material culture shaped and was shaped by scientific knowledge.4 Rather than creating a historical narrative based entirely on scientific developments, these methods focus on how new scientific knowledge emerges from complex networks of relationships between people, social dynamics, existing knowledge, and accessible materials.5 As Alexander Rehding has written, this approach focuses less on tracing a history of discoveries and more on the "process of experimentation" [End Page 27] and "material conditions that made [discoveries] possible in the first place."6 When applied to Rameau, this approach treats his experiments as emergent and dependent upon Rameau's particular relationships with scientists, his personal and professional goals, and his access to scientific and musical instruments.7 Focusing on Rameau's materials and practices reveals his experimentation to be performative, following Pickering's performative image of the history of science.8 By studying his work from a performative perspective, Rameau's experiments come into view as a new type of scientific and musical performance that possessed unique power to persuade his readers of its validity. Rameau's descriptions call readers' attention to the doing of science, and to the relationship between his actions and his materials. In this new performative context, experimental activities transform everyday objects and musical instruments into what Hans-Jörg Rheinberger calls "epistemic things,"9 which shape and are shaped by their roles in producing knowledge. As machines of scientific knowledge, ordinary objects take on new functions. During the period in which Rameau wrote Génération harmonique, scientific instruments and machines may have bolstered scientific claims. Rather than empiricism, per se, it is the relationship between Rameau and his materials that gives Génération harmonique its special claim of scientific truth, as well as its connection to the broader scientific community. Rameau's experiments reflect the unique combination of human and non-human agency that Pickering theorizes: "The [machine] and its skilled operator come together as a single unit of machinic capture,"10 as machines "capture" certain natural phenomena that humans can harness and manipulate. When Rameau devised his experiments, he entered into a human-machine dialectic between resistance and accommodation.11 Initially, he likely encountered resistance from his materials as they reacted in unanticipated ways, or seemed not to cooperate with his intentions. The notion of material resistance derives Pickering's [End Page 28] concept of material agency, in which materials have the capacity to resist. Rameau then likely accommodated that resistance by refining his chosen objects and the...

Colonization and production modes in Northeastern Atlantic Forest from the perspective of historical materialism

The process of colonization in the Northeast Atlantic Forest (NAF) has generated the most serious consequences for the conservation of its natural heritage. In order to generate data for the definition of policies and guidelines for management and conservation of forest remnants in NAF, the article seeks to elucidate the effects of production modes and colonization process on the man-nature relationship. Therefore, it tries to explain the relationships and motivations of the social structure and commercial of the colony in the NAF, based on a combination of elements of capitalism, feudalism and slavery, from the historical materialism point of view.

Justice Could Be Highlighted in the Perspective of Historical Materialism

How to understand the relationship between historical materialism and Marx’s idea of justice? The well-know Canadian philosopher, Kai Nielsen, “who is indeed closer to Marxist moralism in substantive conclusion, but, methodologically speaking, it is more in the spirit of Marxist immoralism” (Nielsen,1987: p. 114), points out Marx’s ideological system is not a valueless theory of science and society, and the facts and value judgments can be unified in Marx’s theory. Nielsen reveals the profound idea of justice as the basic dimension of historical materialism, and the internal unity of fact judgment and value judgment in a dual dimensions, based on the perspective of historical materialism, showing “justice could be highlighted in the perspective of historical materialism”.

Therapeutic communities: "new" outlooks and public health proposals

Problems related to alcohol and other substance abuse are on a steady rise. Certain controversial measures currently aim at immediate solutions, such as the public funding of therapeutic communities. The article draws comparisons between the legacy of early twentieth-century public health practices in psychoactive substance abuse and current proposals for intervention through therapeutic communities. The study researched primary sources from the perspective of historical materialism. Historically produced by society as a whole, problems stemming from substance abuse continue to place the greatest burden on users, the people around them, and public health.