A comparative study of world history in The Germanic Ideology and Notes on History
Although both The German Ideology and Notes on History study world history from the perspective of historical materialism,their categories of study are different.The German Ideology takes"real man"as the starting point,logically turns to the interpretation of world history,interprets Marxist world history thought from the height of philosophy,and preliminarily explains theory of human social form.And Notes on History is Marx's"re-thinking"of world history in his later years.He views world history from the perspective of the evolution process from slavery to the embryonic stage of capitalism through brief comments on excerpted historical materials.This approach shows the process of human society turning from regional history to world history with intuitive time clues and enriches the theory of human social from with historical materials.Therefore,the comparison of world history between The German Ideology and Notes on History not only helps stimulate the theoretical vitality of the Marxist idea of world history and highlights the global significance of socialism with Chinese characteristics,but also helps solve the problems of human social development and provide the Chinese Approach for the development of the world.