China's Path to Modernization and Human Subjectivity
Modernity is a new kind of time consciousness. Modernization is a process of transformation from the traditional to the modern. From the perspective of Marxism,the emergence of the capitalist society is the turning point of human society from traditional society to modern society. The essence of capitalist modernization is the modernization of the logic of the capital. With the capital holding everything else in check,people lose their subjectivity in the real world. The China-styled path to modernity is in the category of socialist modernization,featuring man for at its center in essence,translating man into both the subject of value and the subject of practice. In the drive at China-styled modernization,human beings promote subjectivity and achieve their free and full development in alignment with the laws of nature and the ultimate purpose of mankind.
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