In the Communist Manifesto,Marx and Engels made a systematic and dialectical investiga-tion and analysis of modernity with"capital"as the essential category,based on the vision of histori-cal materialism.While highly affirming the positive effects of modernity,Marx and Engels scientifical-ly revealed the division and contradiction of modernity based on private capital,and pointed out the primary force and practical path of realizing the"free men association"in the future society.Re-ex-amining the important ideas of making the diagnosis,criticism and transcendence of modernity in the Communist Manifesto is helpful to dialectically treat the development of modernity in contemporary China,and provide a thinking paradigm and theoretical enlightenment for Chinese-style modernization.
The Communist ManifestoCapitalist ModernityChinese Modernization