A Logical Analysis of the Progressive Concept of Historical Materialism of “Chinese Path to Modernization”

Modernization is a progressive cause, but western modernization has increasingly caused hidden dangers and crises of Chinese path to modernization. Marx and Engels criticized the political economy of capitalist countries and revealed the inevitable trend of human society ultimately moving towards communism in the Communist Manifesto, which actually revealed the progressive logic of Western modernization centered on capital. On the contrary, Chinese path to modernization is a progressive way of investigating the substantive content of social and historical reality with “real empirical science” to promote the practice of the principle of historical materialism, which contains a progressive concept based on “historicity” and aimed at creating a new form of Marxism sinicization.