The "Abstract to Concrete" Way of Thinking in the Economic Manuscripts 1857-1858

Authors

  • Xinghui Chen School of Marxism, Party School of the CPC Beijing Committee, Beijing, China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53469/jtpss.2024.04(03).02

Keywords:

Economics manuscripts 1857-1858, From abstraction to concreteness

Abstract

Marx in the "1857-1858 Economic Manuscripts" in the introduction to the study of political economy from the "abstract to concrete" method. Previous political economists used the first path of political economy research "from concrete to abstract", that is, from perceptual concrete to thinking abstract, and the second path is "from abstract to concrete", that is, from thinking abstract to thinking concrete, thinking concrete is The second path is "from the abstract to the concrete", i.e. from thinking abstractly to thinking concretely, and thinking concretely is thinking abstractly which contains the prescriptive nature of difference and opposition.

References

Evald Vassilievich Ilyenkov, The Dialectic of Abstraction and Concrete in Marx's Capital, translated by Guo Tiemin, Yan Zheng and Lin Shushun, Fujian People's Publishing House, 1986 edition, p. 262.

Selected Works of Marx and Engels, vol. 1, People's Publishing House, 2012 edition, p. 139.

The Complete Works of Marx and Engels, vol. 42, People's Publishing House, 1979 edition, p. 96.

The Complete Works of Marx and Engels, vol. 3, People's Publishing House, 1956 edition, p. 514.

The Complete Works of Marx and Engels, vol. 30, People's Publishing House, 1995 edition, p. 41-42.

Selected Works of Mao Zedong, vol. 1, People's Publishing House, 1991 edition, p. 328.

The Complete Works of Marx and Engels, vol. 24, People's Publishing House, 1972 edition, p. 402.

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Published

2024-03-14

How to Cite

Chen, X. (2024). The "Abstract to Concrete" Way of Thinking in the Economic Manuscripts 1857-1858. Journal of Theory and Practice of Social Science, 4(03), 9–12. https://doi.org/10.53469/jtpss.2024.04(03).02