A Historical Meditation on the Marxist Philosophical System
The philosophical system of Soviet Marxism-the dichotomy of dialectical and historical materialism-initially took shape in Finger et al.'s Dialectical and Historical Materialism and was basically formed in Mitin et al.'s Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism.Among other theoreticians,Frolov sought to construct a Soviet-style humanistic Marxist philosophical system in his Introduction to Philosophy.Lukács strove to reconstruct materialist dialectics with"totality"as its fundamental principle;Habermas tried to reconstruct historical materialism with"social interaction"as its central axis;Yugoslavia's dialectical materialism school attempted to construct a Marxist philosophical system in which science and humanism were united;and Kosin,of East Germany,tried to construct a Marxist system in which dialectical materialism and historical materialism were"integrated"based on a practical perspective.In China,Li Da's Outline of Sociology contains Chinese scholars'unique understanding of the Marxist philosophical system and puts forward the proposition of"regarding materialistic dialectics as practical materialism";Ai Siqi's Dialectical Materialism,Historical Materialism constructs a dialectical and historical materialism system with"Chinese connotations";The Relationship between Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism by Liu Danyan and Gao Qinghai opens a new exploration of the Marxist philosophical system by Chinese scholars;and Xiao Qian's Principles of Marxist Philosophy attempts to reconstruct the Marxist philosophical system using a practical viewpoint as the theoretical basis and constructive principle.