Interpretation of Marx and Engels' Concept of Civilization

With the development of human society, it has become the consensus of all mankind to grasp all the problems in the historical process from the height of civilization and analyze the practice of civilization with the concept of civilization, and it has also become the starting point for advocating a new form of human civilization.China academic circles define the concept of civilization from four aspects: etymology, process, structure and function, while Marx and Engels have made various specific interpretations of civilization from different contexts, and finally defined civilization as a general social concept, which refers to the sum of the progress and civilized values formed by human beings in long-term social practice and their achievements in material and spiritual aspects, and established basic principles and methods for us.