马克思阶级关系两极分化理论在当代的适用性——兼析赖特的中间阶级理论

Expansion of the Middle Class in Contemporary Capitalist Societies and Marx's Judgment about Polarized Class Relations

马克思、恩格斯把资本主义社会看作是资产阶级和无产阶级两极对立的社会。当代资本主义国家出现了一个由专业管理人员组成的新的社会群体。这个群体既不同于传统的资产阶级,也不同于无产阶级,即所谓的中间阶级。从总体上说,尽管存在着中间阶级有所扩大的现象,使得当代资本主义社会阶级关系呈现较为复杂局面,但资本主义社会的阶级结构呈两极化的态势并未根本改变。

Marx and Engels thought capitalism as polarized society which is divided into proletariat and bourgeois. However, a new social group which is formed of skilled managers emerges in contemporary capitalist society. They are different from traditional bourgeois and proletariat. They are so-called middle classes. In general, although the fact of the expanding middle classes existed, which make the class relation more complex in contemporary capitalist society, it can＇t change the situation of polarized capitalist class structure.