Marx and Engels'Thought on Modernization and Its Contemporary Enlightenment
As a theory of modernization,"modernity"is not a concept of time,but a concept of civilization."Modernity"means farewell to the ancient mode of production and way of life.From the perspective of social form,capitalism was the beginning of modernity and modernization,and the current era is still in the midst of modernity and modernization.Marx and Engels used historical materialism to explain the core connotation of modernization,endowed modernization with a new paradigm on the basis of the overall logic of human history,and scientifically explained the civilizational force,value orientation,thinking logic,and practice orientation of modernization,providing scientific guidance for the development and progress of human civilization.In this sense,Marx and Engels'thought on modernization and the theoretical system of Chinese path to modernization have the inherent orientation of unity and civilization.Deepening the study of Marx and Engels'thought on modernization has important enlightenment for promoting the theoretical and practical innovation of Chinese path to modernization.
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