Dilemma of Modernity and Marxists'Responsibility

The modem society has been undergoing a process of rationalization for centuries and human beings at the end of the 20th century is confronting the problem of modernity Marxism is a theory of social criticism,and today's Marxists should reflect the history and existing state of mankind in the conditions of a new era. They ought to follow Marx's thought of emancipating mankind and his theoretic logic of crihcism on the basis of clarifying the standards of human existence. Facing the dilemmatic reality of modernity they must try to develop a social critical theory that contains both the hath the critical spirit of Marxism and the issue of human liberty andliberation.