Abstract:
Marx and Engels laid a foundation for materialistic historical view by contributing German Ideology and Foreword to Criticism Political Economics in the 1840’s, and Engels enriched and advanced it considerably with a good many propositions and principles he expounded in his late years. Thus, it is completely safe to say that because of Engels’s large quantities of brilliant theorizing made in his late years, materialistic historical view was capable of shaping its complete, abundant and distinctive scientific system. Engels’s brilliant theory continues to be of significant value to our academic study today.
