On the Philosophical Evolution of Marx the Transformation from Old Philosophy to New Materialism

Abstract

Marx's ideology has undergone two major changes in his life, one is from idealism to materialism, the second is from old philosophy to new materialism, these two changes make Marx's thought experienced a reborn change, but also make philosophy has unprecedented scientific. Among them, in the Theses on Feuerbach, Marx proposed for the first time that the new materialism is practical materialism, and the fundamental difference between the "old" materialism and idealism lies in the understanding of "practice". The new materialism, which takes practice as its philosophical starting point, can be based on the relationship between "transforming and being transformed", thus drawing the conclusion that philosophy, above all, changes the world on the basis of interpretation, and above all, changes the world. Therefore, using the research methods of induction and deduction, this paper expounds the transformation of Marx from the old philosophy to the new materialism.