马克思阶级分析方法及其适用性研究-马克思主义基本原理专业毕业论文.docx

PAGE PAGE VI ABSTRACT Class analysis, as the basic analytical method of Marxism, was once deemed by us to be the principal and even the only method for understanding and evaluating social and historical phenomena. After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CCP Central Committee, the work focus of China’s central government shifted to the economy and class struggle gradually faded out from the official discourse system. Accompanying this trend, class analysis was replaced by hierarchy analysis and is no longer the principal analytical method. Nevertheless, with the deepening reform and the division of interest groups, class analysis entered people’s eyes again and caused controversies. Some people think that class analysis no longer suits China’s society today, while some hold that class analysis can present a better and deeper analysis of the roots of social contradictions and conflicts. For this reason, we have to come back and give a second thought to class analysis method of Marxism. Class analysis method of Marxism is the fundamental method for analyzing the underlying reasons of social and historical phenomena. The concept of class reflects people’s status in the relation chain of social production and it decides people’s stance and opinions. As class structure forms basic social structure, it is obligatory to investigate a society’s production relation, each class’s possession of production materials, their positions in production relation as well as the distribution of products if we hope to analyze certain social and historical phenomena. Without social production relation, it is impossible to have an objective understanding of class and society. Class analysis can be used at both the macro level and the micro level. At the macro level, it can be adopted to analyze social structure and social changes; at the micro level, it can be applied to explain social and historical events. In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels revealed the transitional proces