Peter J.S. Duncan,Russian Messianism: Third Rome,Revolution, Communism and After

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Capitalism versus Marx's Communism

Conclusion In this paper, I have assessed Marx's criticism of capitalism, and the practice of divided labor, from the standpoint of two important senses of worth which persons can have, namely self-respect and self-esteem. I have tried to show that in either case, Communism, as Marx envisioned it, is not the superior to capitalism he might have supposed. Along the way, I hope to have also shown the importance of distinguishing between two concepts, namely self-respect and self-esteem.This paper has benefited from the criticisms of several individuals: Elizabeth Rapaport, who commented upon the version which was read at the Western Meetings of the American Philosophical Association in 1977; Allen Buchanan, who sent me a number of comments, as well as a quite helpful paper of his entitled Exploitation, Alienation, and Injustice; and a referee forStudies in Soviet Thought. My concern to meet their criticisms have made this paper immeasurably better.     

马克思对共产主义的审美辩护

作者认为,马克思的共产主义学说建基于马克思的审美理论,马克思的《1844年手稿》中包含一个对共产主义的审美辩护.这一对共产主义的审美辩护同时又构成马克思对资本主义商品的审美批判.作者主张,马克思对商品的审美批判遵循着康德的美学传统.而马克思对于审美的这种康德式的看法虽然有助于他对粗糙的工具主义的批判,并有助于把审美塑造成人与对象之间可能存在的那种真实而有价值的联系,但也正是这种康德式的观点使得马克思没能为其共产主义的设想提供充分论证.面对在共产主义中仍然存在的悲惨境遇(无神的世界),艺术将成为缓解痛苦、抵抗虚无的中心,而马克思的乐观主义则使他忽略了尼采所思考的这一严肃问题:为什么艺术会成为人类的本质的需要.     

社群主义德性观

当代社群主义者在批评现代伦理理论误区的基础上论述了德性伦理,他们认为功利主义和康德主义义务论道德在相互论战中都忽视了人的德性的培育这一关键问题,因而需要复兴古典的德性,特别是亚里士多德所反复论述的德性.德性与幸福紧密相关,同时以理智和基于知识的正确选择为核心,而根本的德性是在两个极端之间取得中道,即中庸之道.公平、正义等不是绝对抽象的,它与人的理性选择和社会实践相关.这些论述对于人们认识现代社会所疏离了的德性,注意培育美德,特别是在民主制度下要求政治人物保持操守,坚守德行,防止腐败,都具有建设性的意义.当然,如何在现代多样化的社会复兴古典德性,防止停留于空幻的议论,真正实现德性践行上的进步,是社群主义者面对的一个理论难题.     

Ai Ssu-ch'i: The apostle of Chinese Communism

Ai Ssu-ch'i is a little known but very important figure in the introduction of Marxism-Leninism into China. This first article provides a brief biography of Ai Ssu-ch'i as well as a detailed account of his activities as teacher, author and propagandist. Among his other services to the cause of Marxism-Leninism in China, one has to stress Ai Ssu-ch'i's systematic opposition to Yeh Ch'ing and to the non-Communist interpretation of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People. (cf.SST 10 (1970), 138–166.)     

Freedom and Necessity in Marx's Account of Communism

This paper considers whether Marx's views about communism change significantly during his lifetime. According to the ‘standard story’, as Marx got older he dropped the vision of self-realization in labour that he spoke of in his early writings, and adopted a more pessimistic account of labour, where real freedom is achieved outside the working-day, in leisure. Other commentators, however, have argued that there is no pessimistic shift in Marx's thought on this matter. This paper offers a different reading of this debate. It argues that there are two visions of the good life in Marx. However, it suggests that these two visions cannot be understood in terms of a simple shift between a ‘young’ and ‘mature’ Marx. Rather, it claims that Marx moves between these two visions throughout his writings. In this way, it suggests that Marx's intellectual development on this issue is best understood as an oscillation rather than a shift. Once this interpretive claim is advanced, the paper then moves on to consider some potential causes and implications of Marx's life-long oscillation between two different conceptions of the good life.     

共产主义信念对道德认知的影响及认知机制

基于五个实验研究联合使用单类内隐联想范式与概念启动范式,探讨了共产主义信念与道德认知的关系及其认知机制。结果显示:(1)共产主义信念与道德在概念层面具有相容性;(2)在阈上、阈下水平启动共产主义信念均能够显著促进道德概念判断;(3)共产主义信念促进道德判断的启动效应呈现累积趋势,符合证据累积模型,而在词汇决定任务下未出现概念的扩散激活效应,不符合扩散激活模型。系列研究表明,新时代中国特色社会主义背景下,共产主义信念与道德认知产生了显著地关联,共产主义信念启动能够促进道德判断,且共产主义信念促进道德判断的启动效应并不是发生在语义层面,而是知觉层面。     

Russian pre-revolutionary Marxism on the the personality

The article treated various concerns of Russian Marxists relating to the concept of personality. In fact, it was not the individual per se and the kindred conceptual constructs that shaped discussions inside Russian Social-Democracy. The individual, on the contrary, was seen as an alien concept, as a central idea of the opponents: the Narodniks, anarchists, Cadets, and liberals in general. The post-1907 Marxist writings demonstrated a significant shift of accent in their approaches to the category of individuality. This was the result of polemics on the psychological particularities of the “reactionary” period (1907–1910). This profound and frequently concealed interest in the individual was typical, in general, of the new generation of Social-Democrats (Bogdanov, Bazarov, Luna?arskij) disillusioned with the classical positivism of the “fathers” and the dogmatic materialism of the “older comrades.”     

论俄罗斯主体心理学的心理发展观

主体心理学是俄罗斯心理学发展的新方向。在个体心理发展方面,俄罗斯主体心理学认为,主体积极性是影响心理发展的第三因素;主体与客体的相互作用是心理发展的机制,其中主体起主要作用;根据主体性发展的水平可以把心理的发展划分为9个阶段。文章认为俊罗斯主体心理学的心理发展观具有一定的积极意义。