Abstract: The emergence of Marx’s class consciousness has always been the focus of debate between dogmatism and empiricism. Because of its veiled form of appearance, Marx’s class consciousness was either inferred by dogmatism as the natural product of the economic base, or subjected to the elimination of the revolution by the supremacy of experience. However, class consciousness has already appeared in Marx’s thought and continues to be present. Marx identified the realistic basis of class consciousness with the criticism of political economy, and analyzed the bourgeois ideology through historical materialism, and then realized the multi-dimensional appearance of class consciousness in the unification of reality and necessity, criticism and clarification. The class consciousness always present in the theater metaphor is the real intervention of the subject to history. Marx’s class consciousness is not only a historical materialist survey of all kinds of nominal class consciousness claims, but also a theoretical search for the root of solving the problem of proletarian consciousness at present. |
