Shaping A New Political Community:Marx's Sublation of State-Society Dualism and its Implications for Modern Times
The relationship between state and society is one of the most important thematic concerns in the Marx-ist theory and Western political science One finds no thinkers better than Marx as the intellectual gateway to the depth of the question.The state-society dualism is not a natural political phenomenon in the West;rather,it arose from the development of capitalism,which was unseen in Chinese political tradition and history.Marx's histori-cal materialism profoundly unveils the complicated intertwining between political state and civil society,giving insight into the nature of political state and its process of formation.For the first time,Marx announces the per-ishing of the state,discrediting the metaphysics of state power.The Marxist view predicts the eradication of class rule,the destined perishing of the state,and the final unity of free human beings in a communist commonwealth.The lack of the dual structure of state and society in Chinese history determines a particular holistic blueprint of Chinese modernization and modern Chinese civilization.A reflection on Marx's proposition concerning the state sheds light on the link between Chinese modernization and Chinese political culture,as well as the possibility of transcending the impasse of Western state-society dualism.
Marxismstate-society relationshipMarxist theorya new political community
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