An Exploration of the Historical Materialist View of Political Marxism
Western scholars' interpretations of historical materialism are often mired in various binary debates,such as determinism versus voluntarism,structuralism versus subjective agency,and so on.The Political Marxism throws a lot of doubts about the various viewpoints raised in the debates on historical materialism,believing that Marx's historical materialism has short-comings in precisely explaining certain historical events.Accordingly,the Political Marxism attempts to provide new interpreta-tions for the interaction mechanisms between productive forces and production relations,economic base and superstructure,and their interrelationships,thereby making a special analysis to the past and the present of capitalism.The reconstruction of histori-cal materialism made by Political Marxism has resulted in a mixture of insights and misconceptions.Identifying the lessons from the reconstruction of historical materialism could help to provide useful references for advocating a way of accurately grasping his-torical materialism in the spirit of Marxism.