Criticism and Transcendence—Methodological Inspiration from Engels'Outline of Critique of National Economics
National economists claim that market economy can achieve morality,but the social reality is just the opposite.What is the cause of this contradiction?Engels's Outline of the Critique of National Eco-nomics attempts to answer this question.The Outline of the Critique of National Economics is not a com-plete and rigorous system,but each fragment together is a flash of thought,which can be played from mul-tiple angles.Just like the starlight breaking the night sky,the revelation of the contradictions of national economics has actually illuminated the boundary of the new theoretical space in a special way,and it is in the negative criticism of national economists that the principles of scientific socialism come into being at the beginning.The antinomy of bourgeois economics is rooted in the position in which it is studied,which allows capitalism to be regarded as an eternal existence beyond history and to escape the trial of the court of reason.In the final analysis,national economics is a non-historical theory that serves specific interests,and its effort to explain the world lies in shielding the irrational social reality.On the contrary,the holistic stance of breaking free from the shackles of special interests can critically reflect on the premise of the the-ory,and thus achieve social change in the radical revolutionary change of the theory.
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