略论后现代社会的几个主要特征

On Some Main Features of the Post Modern Society

20世纪30年代以来,西方发达国家逐步进入后现代社会。其经济特征是"生产的终结",即满足实际生活需要的生产的终结;其政治特征是以阶级斗争为核心的政治的终结;其社会特征是人和人之间的结构性社会联系的终结;其文化特征是文化产品的意义的终结。这些新的趋势对传统的经济学、社会学、政治学等提出新课题,也对马克思主义提出新课题。后现代主义思潮就是用来分析和批判后现代社会所出现的新趋势的,应得到各门社会科学的重视。

Since 1930s the western developed countries have gradually entered the post modern society. Its economic feature is ＂the end of production＂, which is the end of the production that meets the actual needs. Its political characteristics is the end of the politics which takes class struggle as the core. Its social characteristics are the end of the person to person structural social contact. Its cultural characteristics are the end the of the meaning of cultural products. The new trend proposed new tasks for the traditional economics, sociology, political science, and also raised new issues for the Marxism. Postmodernism is used to analyze and criticize the new trend of mod- ern society ,which should draw the attention of various social sciences.