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Theoretical Horizons Only Socialism Can Save China

11-06 10:01 China Discipline Inspection Magazine

What kind of ism is practiced in a country depends critically on whether it can solve the historic issues facing the country. During the period when the Chinese nation was poor, weak and at the mercy of others, many isms and currents of thought were tried, and history and reality tell us that only socialism can save China.

National conditions make it possible

Socialism is dedicated to "seeking happiness and delivering warmth."

Peking University professor Han Yuhai

When we talk about socialism, we have to refer to Marx's famous document for the Paris Commune -- The Civil War in France. -The French Civil War. At the heart of this document is the word "society". The word "society" is originally a Roman word, that is, the Latin word "Socius", which originally means "eating bread together", and later on, it was extended to mean partnership, companionship and partnership. Mr. Sun Yat-sen translated "socialism" with "livelihoodism", which means having food for everyone, and this captured the original meaning of "society" very precisely.

Comrade Mao Zedong once advocated that the whole party should study The French Civil War. The key to this is to maintain "society" and insist on socialism, which is not only the work of the Chinese ****productivity party's "strengths", but also the fundamental treasure of the Chinese ****productivity party to gain the people's trust and support, and is the necessary way to save China and prosper China. The way to save China is also the way to prosper China.

Why is it said that only socialism can save and prosper China? One important reason is: our basic national conditions - a large population and limited resources. Therefore, ***sharing resources is not only our ideal, but also the "reality" we must face. It was on the basis of this understanding that Marx regarded Chinese civilization as a "natural ****sibling". He also said that in order to preserve this ancient civilization, this ancient ****-symbol, the Chinese people must go to create a new "human ****-symbol" and struggle tirelessly.

The socialist movement began with the creation of a society - a voluntary organization of workers. For example, the Chinese Revolution began with the creation of trade unions, farmers' associations, youth resistance groups, women's relief societies, children's groups, and literacy classes, and eventually organized a scattered China. If the function of the state is to enrich the country and the military, and the function of the market is to make money, then the function of society is to "seek happiness and send warmth", that is, "the working people organize themselves and help the working people".

And our party's social governance, social work, one aspect is to make the people consciously and voluntarily organized, which is from the people, relying on the people's true meaning, and its specific working methods, that is, the party's "mass line". Another aspect is to wholeheartedly provide the people with public **** products, public **** services, for example, since the founding of New China, is committed to the establishment of a system of public medical care covering urban areas, rural cooperative medical system, the establishment of rural "five guarantees system" and so on.

It is because of our Party's long-term commitment to building a sound social system that, despite the fact that economic growth in the early years of New China's founding was not as fast as it could have been, we have been able to eliminate many long-running diseases, popularize basic education, eradicate illiteracy, cultivate the people's organizational skills, and maintain the unity of the various ethnic groups, and ultimately lay a strong "social foundation" for the rapid economic growth that has taken place since the reform and opening up of China. "social foundation."

Historical choice

Socialism leads China out of a new path

Tang Tao, a researcher at the Central Research Institute of Party History and Literature

After the Opium War, countless men of benevolence struggled to find the truth about saving the country and the people. In August 1920, Cai Hesen, who went to France to study and work, wrote to his friend Mao Zedong: "I have recently taken a comprehensive look at all kinds of doctrines and realized that socialism is really the right remedy for the transformation of the present world," he said. Socialism is really the right prescription for transforming the world. China is no exception."

Of course, there were heated exchanges in the ideological community during this process. In 1920, Russell, a famous British philosopher, came to China to lecture at the invitation of Liang Qichao. In his speech, he believed that "China's industrial situation is now childish", and that it should develop industry and education, and said, "For the time being, I do not advocate socialism as a method of social improvement in China". In this regard, accompanied by his lectures in the mainland Zhang Dongsun expressed deep approval, and published an article to support. The article was not long, but it stirred up a furor. Liang Qichao and others wrote articles in support of his views, while Li Dazhao, Li Da and others refuted them on the basis of reasoning, which set off a great debate on where China was going.

In this debate, which had the most participants and the longest period of time in the forum of political thought after the May Fourth Movement, the focus was mainly on three issues: whether China should take the road of capitalism or the road of socialism; whether it should transform the Chinese society through a social revolution; and whether it needed to establish a working-class political party in China, and so on. Zhang and Liang believed in Russell's Kirtland socialism, i.e., bourgeois reformism under the banner of socialism, and argued that "China's only disease is poverty", and that the cure lay in the development of industry by capitalist methods. The early Chinese Marxists strongly refuted this, pointing out that China did need to develop industry, but it must be seen that, compared with capitalism, under the socialist mode of production, "the fact that one person exploits and oppresses others will never happen, and there is no danger of economic panic and unemployment among the people", so that Therefore, "the best way to develop industry today is to adopt socialism". They also emphasized that there is an objective proletariat in China, which "suffers more misery than the proletariat in Europe, America and Japan", and that it is therefore not only absolutely necessary, but also entirely conducive, for Chinese workers to unite and organize themselves into revolutionary groups.

This polemic was, in essence, a debate about what path China should take. The result was that many advanced elements, like those in the dispute over "issues" and "doctrines," came to recognize scientific socialism and embarked on the path of believing in scientific socialism, or Marxism.

History has proved that the early Marxists were absolutely right when they emphasized that the way out for China lay in socialism. What is particularly valuable is that from the very beginning, China's advanced elements did not explore Marxism as a mere doctrine, but regarded it as an ideological weapon for transforming the world.

After the founding of the Chinese ****productivity party, it combined the basic principles of Marxism with China's actual national conditions, united and led the people in unremitting struggles, successively accomplished the New Democratic Revolution and the Socialist Revolution, set up the Chinese People's **** and State and the basic system of socialism, and carried on the painstaking exploration of socialist construction, and triumphantly "realized the transformation of the Chinese nation from a sick man of East Asia to a great man of the world". great leap of the Chinese nation from the sick man of East Asia to standing up." As General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, "This great leap proves with ironclad facts that only socialism can save China!"

Cultural self-compatibility

Socialism has an intrinsic fit with traditional Chinese culture

Niu Guanheng, assistant researcher at the Institute of Contemporary China at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

After the victory of the Chinese Revolution led by China's ****-producing Communist Party, many people in the world were puzzled as to how Marxism, which arose in Europe, was able to be accepted by the Chinese. How could socialism achieve great success in the far east?

In fact, at the very beginning of the introduction of Marxism to China, many people questioned whether Marxism and China's cultural traditions could be ****ed together. As early as 1925, Guo Moruo wrote the sketch "Marx into the Temple of Literature", the text fictionalized Marx into the Confucian temple, and Confucius dialogue, the results of the dialogue, Confucius to Marx marvel: your ****productivist ideal society and my commonwealth of the world actually coincide; Marx to Confucius also marvel: you and I have the exact same opinion, how someone had said that my ideas and your incompatible, and you The first is that the Chinese government is not in a position to implement the idea of a common world.

While this is a traveler's essay, it is a literary answer to the question of how Marxism can be compatible with traditional Chinese culture as represented by the thought of Confucius. It is no accident that the two can be connected, which is closely related to the cultural exchanges between East and West in history. Since modern times, there has been a wave of thinking called Western learning, but before that, from the 16th century to the 18th century, with the Western missionaries traveling between the East and the West, there has also been a gradual change of Eastern learning, Western missionaries introduced Chinese culture to Europe, such as Matteo Ricci had Zhu Xi's The Four Books Collected and Annotated translated into Latin. Chinese traditional academic thought also with the East and West influence some of the French Enlightenment thinkers and German classical philosophers, such as Voltaire very much respected Confucius and Chinese culture, in his room hangs a Confucius statue; Hegel was also once obsessed with Chinese culture and Chinese philosophy.

It can be said that the traditional Chinese culture represented by Confucianism influenced the later Marx and Marxism through the French Enlightenment thinkers and German classical philosophers, and Marxism absorbed some reasonable ideas of the traditional Chinese culture when it was founded. Therefore, after Marxism reached China, it was quickly accepted by the Chinese people who were y influenced by Confucianism.

As depicted in Marx Entering the Temple of Literature, the ****productivist ideal society advocated by Marx coincided with the commonwealth society advocated by Confucius. ****productivism will ultimately be established is no oppression, no exploitation, everyone is equal, everyone is free of the ideal society, through which is Marxism adhere to the people's position of thought; Confucius and Mencius advocated the "cultivate yourself to the people" ideal of benevolent government, through which is emphasized in the traditional Chinese culture of the people's mind, both have an intrinsic fit. There is an inherent fit between the two. As a faithful inheritor and promoter of the excellent traditional Chinese culture from the day of its establishment, the Chinese ****producers have been actively promoting the integration of Marxism and traditional Chinese culture.

Currently, the Chinese people are striving to realize the goal of "Two Hundred Years", in which the concept of "well-off" in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects is taken from the Book of Rites - Rites of Passage. Xiaokang and Datong, the ideal social state that the Chinese nation has been striving for since ancient times, and the socialism and ****productivism that the ****productivists are trying to realize, are both aiming to let the people live a good and happy life.