Social Sciences in China (Chinese Edition)

No. 7, 2022

 

Marx’s Idea of Modernity and the Practical Logic of Chinese-Style Modernization

(Abstract)

 

Zang Fengyu

 

Marx was both a critic of capital modernity and a constructor of a new modernity. While acknowledging the development of the productive forces in modern society, he pointed out that the logic of capital is realized as a process of infinite multiplication and expansion of capital. While criticizing the modernity of capital, Marx proposes a new version of modern development, thus enhancing the quality of modern civilization. Marxism provided a powerful possibility and scientific and rational thinking for China’s national liberation, activating the great force of reality and history that underpinned China’s modernization. The Chinese way of modernization embodies the laws of socialist construction and human social development, and promotes the creative transformation and innovative development of the excellent Chinese traditional culture. The new form of human civilization created therein shows that a nation with its particular history in the world has successfully chosen a modernization path that is in line with its own reality, and the achievements it has made are of world historical significance.