西方马克思主义对文化的理论定位

Western Marxist Positioning on Culture

早期西方马克思主义、法兰克福学派、伯明翰学派等为代表的西方马克思主义对文化的理解各不相同,但他们都认为文化并不是经济的附属品,认为文化对于工人阶级及其革命意识的形成、对于战胜资本主义、实现人类解放都具有积极意义。西方马克思主义为反对经济决定论而夸大了文化的作用,从而使他们的文化构想具有了乌托邦色彩。

Earlier Western Marxism, Frankfurt school, and Birmingham school, those representative schools for Western Marxism held different understanding on culture, but they all agreed that culture not an attachment to economy but a positive accelerator for defeating capitalism and forming a revolutionary awareness among working class, For over-exaggerating functions of culture against economic determinism, Western Marxism, therefore, characterized color of Utopia in cultural conception.