马克思论现代社会的基本特征

资本主义社会是现代社会的开端。它作为现代社会的代表形式,具有以下基本特征:工业化,这是现代社会的最基本特征;世界联系的整体化;现代科技的发展及其广泛应用(知识化);商品经济的充分发展(市场化);现代城市的出现和不断发展(城市化);高度的社会分化和社会整合;社会文明的世俗化。从传统社会向现代社会过渡,必须具备以上基本特征。只有在此基础上,才能逐步向共产主义社会过渡。马克思关于现代社会基本特征的理论,对于我们今天全面推进有中国特色社会主义现代化建设事业,仍然具有重要指导意义。

Marx Statements of the Elementary Characteristics on Modern Society

Capitalist society is the beginning of the modern society. Being the modern society, It has several elementary characteristics: Industrialization, this is the fundamental characteristic of the modern society; Integration of the world relations; Development and widespread use on the science and technology; High development of commodity economy; Arise and gradual development of the modern cities; High social divide and integration; Common of the civilization. In order to transit to modern society, traditional society must be being the elementary features as above. In this base, it could gradually transit to the communist society. Today, Marx's theory of the basic characteristics on the modern society, has important guiding significance to completely push on the socialist modernization with the China features.