Marx was born in 1818. It was 1845 when he wrote "Theses on Feuerbach". He wrote this at the age of 27, which was praised by Engels as "the first work containing the germ of genius of a new world view". file".

You must know that Marx wrote the famous article "Youth Considerations in Choosing a Career" when he was 17 years old. Therefore, it is not accidental that he could have such ideological achievements at the age of 27.

Marx did not publish this article during his lifetime. After his death, Engels discovered this manuscript when he was sorting out his papers, and published it publicly as an "Appendix" to "Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of German Classical Philosophy".

The full text is very short, with ***11 items in total and less than 1,500 words, but every sentence in the text is very classic. The great significance of the "Outline" in the history of the development of Marxism is self-evident.

On the surface, the 11 items in the article are unrelated and do not make sense, but in fact they have a clear logical structure.

Generally speaking, three viewpoints are discussed: the practical viewpoint, the human nature viewpoint and the philosophical viewpoint. The practical point of view is the fundamental difference between Marxist philosophy and all previous philosophies. He believes that practice is the real perceptual activity of human beings in transforming the world, an active revolutionary critical activity, the standard for testing truth, and the foundation of human social life.

Regarding the elaboration of the view of human nature and philosophy, there are two very classic sayings in the article. One is "The essence of human being is the sum of all social relations", which criticizes Feuerbach's view of human beings. The essence boils down to the wrong view of classes. The latter sentence is "Philosophers just explain the world in different ways, the problem is to change the world." I believe you must have heard it.

If you don’t have a certain foundation in Marxist philosophy, you will still find this article to be very obscure even though it is only about 1,000 words long. But after you truly understand it, you will definitely be amazed and exclaimed as a genius.

Although the article is short and the expression is more popular than Marx and Engels' other articles, it is not easy to understand because there is a certain historical and theoretical background behind each sentence.

In addition to the inspiration brought by the theory itself, I have two profound insights from repeated reading and study.

First, people nowadays like to pursue lengthy articles when writing books and articles, which makes it more and more likely to have a misunderstanding. The more words there are, the more sophisticated the article will be. When we often read, we will find that real masters use fewer words to explain the essence of the problem to the point. Content is king and the value orientation that compositions should pursue.

Secondly, Marx told us that a philosophical revolution in the true sense is not just a change in specific views or even systems, but must go deep into the level of thinking and achieve a paradigm shift in thinking. The same is true for people's self-revolution. They must change their way of thinking, such as changing from a fixed type to a growth type, in order to quickly achieve self-iteration and upgrade.