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Journal of Beijing Normal University(Social Sciences) ›› 2023, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (4): 5-17.

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The Philosophical Foundation of “New Materialism” and the Community with a Shared Future for Mankind

LIU Tongfang   

  1. School of Marxism, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
  • Online:2023-07-25 Published:2023-08-28

Abstract: Community with a shared future for mankind is a great strategic idea to lead the trend of the times and plan the development of mankind, which has a profound philosophical foundation of “new materialism”.The “new materialism” founded by Marx takes “human society” as its foundation, which is fundamentally different from the old philosophy which starts from “civil society”.It has realized the transformation from the logical starting point of “abstract man” to “realistic man”, the innovation of thinking mode from “empirical intuition” to “materialist dialectical” and the transformation of realistic end-result from “false community” to “real community”.Relying on private ownership and interest exchanges, “civil society” accomplishes the collusion with the bourgeoisie, which promotes the intensification of contradictions and conflicts in the real society and the irregular change of hierarchical structure, promotes the disorderly expansion of the capitalist world market, and leads to the derivative of unjust communication relations and the overall imbalance of the world order structure.Starting from the philosophical foundation of “new materialism”, Community with a shared future for mankind has always been based on “human society”, demonstrating the theoretical characteristics of “new materialism” which seeks to “change the world”.It goes beyond the explanatory principles of the capitalist development model based on personal interests, and moves towards a “free man consortium” that is in line with the essence of human communication and based on common interests, achieving the dialectical unity of the theoretical logic of “new materialism” and the historical logic of modern civilization development.

Key words: community with a shared future for mankind, civil society, human society, philosophical foundation

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