The Unleashing of the Mode of Production and the Freedom and Emancipation of Mankind:Re-evaluating the Historical Generation and Significance of Historical Materialism
Marx and Engels's examination of human history focused on the mode of social production.In The German Ideology,Marx and Engels have deeply revealed the four-fold relationships of human social development:the relationship of the production of material means of subsistence,the relationship between the satisfaction of human material needs and the emergence of new needs as a result of satisfying such needs,the relationship of reproduction,the dialectical relationship between productive forces and production relations.Historical materialism is a historically generative process,which builds on the above four relationships.The historical materialism also sheds light on the three stages of community in the development of human history:the naturally formed community,the illusory community,and the true community.Marx and Engels posited that only at the stage of the true community-the communist society-would mankind finally eliminate private ownership and the division of labour and achieve the freedom and emancipation of mankind.
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