Modernity Dimension of the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844

Originating from the West,modernity nowadays remains as the key in the political,economic and cultural operation of human society.Modernity is the spiritual essence of modernization.While Karl Marx's Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 disclosed the evils of capitalism,it also reflected the development of capitalist modernity.Its modernity dimension is featuring with three aspects: Capital,as the dialectical unity with labor,is a basic force to promote social progress and a civilization;rational spirit,as the source of the value of modernity,is reflected in the reality that the capital overcame the feudal property and that money has no master overcame there is no piece of land without an owner;the idea of progress is the social development dimension of modernity,which is characterized that the ownership structure of feudal property inevitably disappeared from the arena of history,the industrial civilization overcame the agricultural civilization,and the new production relations of capitalism would open a new chapter of history