Marx’s Concept Of Happiness And Building Socialist Harmonious Society

Along with China economic and social development, people are paying more and moreattentions to enrich spiritual life as well as material life. Our country is experiencing a fasteconomic development. However, compare to western developed capitalist countries, it isundeniable that China social transformation is pushed forward by the history. Many socialproblems come out almost at the same time during the social transformation. The fact ispeople’s income increase is laged far behind the GDP’s increase. And the public facilitiesand security system is laged behind western developed capitalist countries. The masses cannot afford to house,medical treatment, education and so on. People are facing the wideningwealth gap and the spiritual emptiness. Besides, diversified views of life and values emergeas long as China entering the global system. The masses begin to question their lives, thesociety and the era because they are busy earning their lives instead of pursuing ofhappiness. The masses can not find the way to happiness but equal happiness to the needs,desires, comfortation and enjoyment of life, etc. Negative and irrational concept ofhappiness do not only affect individual development but also drag back the whole socialprogress. At present, as a healthy rational and positive concept of happiness, Marx’sconcept of happiness does not only help us to understand the current people’s adversity butalso lead a way to happiness. What’s more, as a guiding ideology, Marx’s concept ofhappiness points out a direction to build socialist harmonious society for us. Marx’s conceptof happiness tell us that pure economic development is no longer meets people’s needs.Only if we start from people’s vital interests and set people’s happiness as premise, we willtruly realize socialist harmonious society. In this paper, writer solves people’s confusions intheir lives while rise Marx’s concept of happiness to methodology of building a socialistharmonious life through a detailed discussion of Marx’s concept of happiness, reflectingsignificance of establishing Marx’s concept of happiness in building socialist harmoniouslife.