Cultural Foundation: Essays on the History of Science and Culture

Author: He Yaping, Zhang Gang
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Publish Date: 1996-11-01
Features: Science and technology are not only a powerful source of productive forces, but also a great spiritual weapon for promoting the liberation of ideas. These two functions and roles are complementary. According to Marxist understanding of productive forces, among the various elements that constitute productive forces, people are the decisive and fundamental factor. Science and technology play their material and spiritual functions by changing people's concepts of thought, establishing a scientific and revolutionary worldview, enriching and equipping people's minds with scientific knowledge and skills, and continuously opening up new areas of labor tools, labor materials, and labor group level management. Under the impetus of the contemporary new technological revolution, it has become productive forces.