Marx’s methodological revolution creates the new method of materialist dialectics. It contains “dialectics of practice”, “materialist dialectics” in its narrow sense and “historical dialectics”. Dialectics of practice generates the new methodology of regarding recognition as the whole practice-cognition process and constantly seeking the historical and concrete unity of subjectivity and objectivity on the basis of practice. Materialist dialectics in the narrow sense has at its core the new method of “unity of opposites” that leads to the new phase of understanding and transforming the world from a perspective of genuine inter-relationship and constant movement. Historical dialectics produces the new method of seeking for historical drive in material forces, focusing on the unity of “environmental change and human activities”, and revealing historical law on the basis of the unity of opposites of objective law and subjective agency.

Editor: zhang Jiangang