货币异化与货币文明——马克思早期思想中的货币概念

Monetary Alienation and Monetary Civilization——The Monetary Concept in Marx's Early Thought

马克思把货币看作私有财产交换的中介,一切私有财产都可通过交换转化为货币,并可通过货币而交换一切私有财产。作为社会经济活动"润滑剂"和"牵线人"的货币具有典型的两面性:一方面,由于具有购买一切东西的特性,货币被异化为现代市民社会真正的上帝,被当成万能之物,激起无数人为之发疯和着魔,人跪倒在货币的脚下,这就是货币异化现象;另一方面,货币打破了前资本主义社会人对人的依赖关系,扩大了人的交往,促进了全球一体化和世界市场的形成,这体现了货币的文明作用。

Marx regard money as the medium of private property exchange,All private property can be converted into money by exchange, and can exchange all private property by money. Money, as the ＂lubricant＂ and ＂pull strings＂ of social and economic activities,has two typical sides. On the one hand, money is seen as all-powerful thing, just because of its＇ characteristics of buying everything,it is alienated as true God in the modern civil society. Countless people kneel at the foot of the money and crazying for it, which is the phenomenon of monetary alienation. On the other hand, money broke the dependence between people in the pre-capitalist society, expanded the interaction between people and promoted the formation of the world market and global integration which reflected the civilization role of money.