How to understand that prosperity, democracy, civilization and harmony are the main values of socialism?

1, prosperity is the basic value goal of socialist modernization, the long-cherished wish of the Chinese nation, and the material basis for the prosperity of the country and the happiness and well-being of the people. Poverty is not socialism, nor is polarization socialism. Our pursuit of prosperity is based on comprehensive national strength, characterized by the common prosperity of all the people, and guided by sustained and healthy development. Among them, we need to deal with two pairs of dialectical relations:

The relationship between national wealth and people's wealth. "Prosperity" contains the value demands of two subjects, one is that the people are rich, and the other is that the country is strong. "Rich" first lies in enriching the people, that is, the people are rich. Without the prosperity of the people, there is no country's strength. Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has said that "every country must enrich the people first." Marxism also believes that the fundamental purpose of developing social productive forces and creating national wealth is to enrich people's material life and spiritual life, thus promoting people's free and all-round development. Secondly, "prosperity" also lies in the country's strength, that is, the country is strong, which is reflected in the country's strong comprehensive national strength and its strong influence on national order and international affairs. In socialist countries, people's prosperity and national prosperity are basically the same. The prosperity of the country is an important prerequisite for benefiting the people, and the prosperity of the people is the fundamental purpose of the country's prosperity.

The relationship between getting rich first and getting rich later. The essence of socialism is to "liberate and develop productive forces, eliminate exploitation and polarization, and finally achieve common prosperity." The former is the standard of productivity, emphasizing efficiency first, while the latter emphasizes justice as the basis. Our concept of affluence is based on the value standard of affluence and the efficiency principle of giving consideration to the productivity standard and the fair demand of * * *, thus surpassing the egalitarian thought of "not suffering from scarcity but suffering from inequality" in China's traditional culture, and surpassing the concept of affluence that western capitalism encourages the development of production but often produces two levels of differentiation.

2. Democracy, that is, people's democracy, is the banner that socialism has always held high and the fundamental embodiment of socialist superiority. Democracy is not only a value concept, but also a political practice and institutional arrangement. After the founding of New China, our party led the people of all ethnic groups to establish a state system of democratic dictatorship, which provided a political premise for realizing people's democracy. At present, "the people exercise their rights through elections and voting, and all parties within the people conduct full consultations before elections and voting, and try their best to reach an agreement on the same-sex issue. These are two important forms of socialist democracy in China." That is, electoral democracy and deliberative democracy are two basic forms of democracy in Socialism with Chinese characteristics.

As a common political ideal of mankind, democracy is universal, historic, concrete and relative. There is no fixed or universally applicable form of democracy in the world. What kind of political development path and democratic model a country chooses is determined by the comprehensive factors such as the level of economic and social development and historical and cultural traditions of this country. Compared with other forms of democracy, socialist democracy has its unique advantages: first, in the sense of ownership, socialist democracy is based on public ownership of the means of production and is a democratic system that truly realizes the enjoyment of most people; Second, from the perspective of interests, socialist democracy requires developing and safeguarding the fundamental interests of the people; Thirdly, in terms of efficiency, Socialism with Chinese characteristics's democracy is conducive to giving full play to the political advantages of concentrating on doing great things and improving efficiency to do practical things.

Civilization is an important symbol of social progress and national development. In the socialist core values, the orientation of advanced socialist culture and the value pursuit of socialist spiritual civilization are reflected, which is an important support for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Nowadays, culture plays an increasingly important role in the competition of comprehensive national strength, and civilization has become the soul and spiritual motive force of national development. In international competition, whoever occupies the commanding heights of cultural development can take the initiative in international competition. The Chinese nation once created a splendid civilization and made great contributions to the development and progress of mankind. Since the reform and opening up, socialist civilization has also made great progress, but compared with the achievements made in the construction of material civilization, we still have many problems in the construction of cultural and spiritual civilization. In the new era, our party has raised socialist civilization to the height of rejuvenating the country, which is the national spirit with patriotism as the core and the spirit of the times with reform and opening up as the core.

4. Harmony is the foundation of the existence and development of all things in the world, the core concept of China traditional culture and the essential attribute of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. As an important part of socialist core values, the connotation of harmony can be grasped from three aspects: as far as general things are concerned, harmony is a positive display of dialectical relations between things; As far as the characteristics of social form are concerned, harmony is the essential attribute of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. As far as the future development of human history is concerned, a harmonious world is the common value pursuit of mankind.

The concrete contents of the socialist concept of harmony include: first, the harmony between people, that is, the harmony of social relations; The second is the harmony between man and nature. Man is a part of nature, and nature is the foundation of human survival and development. The socialist concept of harmony requires us to reconcile with nature, no longer appear as conquerors of nature, and to seek infinity from nature in order to maximize personal interests, but to live in harmony with nature; Third, the harmony of international relations. Harmony, as the essential attribute of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, is not only reflected in advocating the construction of a harmonious society internally, but also advocating the construction of a harmonious world externally.

Prosperity, democracy, civilization and harmony constitute the all-round value pursuit of socialist economy, politics, culture, society and ecology. Abundance is the material basis for realizing social democracy, civilization and harmony. As the essential attribute of a country's political system, the construction of democratic system can stimulate people's enthusiasm and creativity in socialist construction, thus creating more social wealth and promoting the prosperity of the country and the prosperity of the people; As a model of grassroots social governance, it can realize citizens' democratic autonomy and create a harmonious grassroots social environment; And it can provide a relaxed institutional environment for the development of culture and promote a hundred flowers to blossom. Cultural construction and civilization development have a strong reaction to economy, and advanced culture plays a leading role in social progress. A harmonious society contains the general requirements of "democracy and rule of law, fairness and justice, honesty and friendship, vitality, stability and order, and harmonious coexistence between man and nature", which is an interpretation of prosperity, democracy and civilization. In short, among the core values at the national level, economic prosperity is the foundation, political democracy is the guarantee, civilization progress is the driving force, and social harmony is the goal.