Marx’s Human Rights Thought And Its Contemporary Value

As an indispensable part of Marxist theory system,Marx’s human rights thought has extremely rich theoretical connotation.It criticizes and surpasses the bourgeois concept of human rights,and is committed to promoting the comprehensive and free existence and development of human beings.Sorting out and interpreting Marx’s human rights thought,summarizing,concluding and revealing its modern and contemporary value and enlightenment have very important theoretical value and practical significance for building a human rights system with Chinese characteristics and solving international human rights problems.This paper first examines the prerequisite of the emergence of Marx’s human rights thought from the realistic basis and ideological and cultural aspects,and analyzes the influence of natural human rights,free will,public ownership and social equality on Marx.Then,based on the works of different periods,this paper finds out Marx’s criticism and transcendence of the previous concept of human rights,sorts out the formation and development of Marx’s human rights thought,and divides the development of Marx’s human rights thought into different stages according to the logical process of the development of Marx’s human rights thought,showing its development course from immature to mature.On the basis of sorting out and expounding the development track of Marx’s human rights thought,this paper sums up the main content and basic characteristics of his human rights thought,summarizes his aims and objectives,in order to grasp Marx’s human rights thought comprehensively and accurately.On this basis,it analyzes the contemporary value of Marx’s human rights thought comprehensively,combines with the actual situation of contemporary real life,discusses the contemporary significance of Marx’s human rights thought,points out the necessity of taking Marx’s human rights thought as guidance,developing the cause of human rights in the present society,and provides theoretical support for promoting the construction of human rights in our country and solving human rights problems.In Marx’s human rights thought,the grasp of the essence of human,the reality-based human to achieve the full liberation of human,the realization of human liberation beyond the political liberation and other views provide theoretical support for our country to build a socialist harmonious society and adhere to the people-oriented.Its viewpoint of freedom and equality and its position of taking the right to subsistence and development as the most basic rights provide theoretical guidance for further perfecting the fair and just human rights protection system.The sociality,historicity and class nature of human rights indicated by Marx’s human rights thought also provide ideological and theoretical weapons for China to effectively protect its own rights and fight against any attempt to use human rights issue to damage the rights and interests of other countries and interfere in the decision-making of other countries.