Marx’s Thoughts on Modern Technology

In nature, Marx’s philosophy of technology is a modern critical philosophy of technology, which aims at the clarification of the historical premise of modern technology and the two delimitations of technological criticism. Marx questioned closely the essence of modern technology. He revealed the historical nature and social form of modern technology, and the relationship between technology and modern society’s mode of production as well as human existence. Marx explained the relevance between technology and the human life world, expounded three types of “human life world form” with different characteristics in terms of pre-modern society, modern society and future society. Marx distinguished technology itself and the social forms and ways in which technology was used, proposed the ideal of “new technological community of human life” for future society, and delimited the boundary of principle which separated from positivism and romanticism.