贝尔用马克思关于资本主义发展的“第二种图式”来分析发达资本主义社会的结构性变化并循着马克思主义的立场方法对未来社会进行预测并提出了后工业社会理论。贝尔认为马克思的第二种图式表明,社会结构不再仅仅是由生产方式简单地全盘决定的,社会分裂为技术——经济、政治和文化三大领域并依循各自的轴心原则发展变化。贝尔在建构后工业社会理论的过程中,宣称了自己的后马克思主义者身份,借助马克思主义社会发展理论的某些观点和方法,结合二战后资本主义的新发展重新思考马克思主义的现实批判性和阐释力,开启了秉承马克思的某些思想和方法论去寻找后马克思主义理论资源的先例。 Using Marx’s “second schema” of capitalist development, Bell analyzes the structural changes in advanced capitalist society and forecasts the future society in the light of Marxist stance and puts forward the post-industrial social theory. Bell argues that the second schema of Marx shows that the social structure is no longer simply determined by the mode of production. The society is divided into three major areas: technology, economy, politics and culture, and its development and changes are based on its own axis. During the process of constructing the post-industrial society theory, Bell claimed his post-Marxist identity, relied on some viewpoints and methods of Marxist theory of social development and re-thinking the realistic critique of Marxism in light of the new development of capitalism after World War II And expounding power, opening up the precedent of adhering to certain Marxist ideas and methodology and finding the resources of post-Marxist theory.