The Nature Of Socialism And Social Equality

With the development of the practice, the theoretical form of Marxist theory about the essence of socialism has gone through a historical evolving process. The essence of socialism is the basic property of socialism, and the theory of the essence of socialism is just the theory of the basic property of socialism. The basic spirit of the theory of the essence of socialism is seeking to establish equal social relations. Though the theoretical form of the essence of socialism has been varied in the different periods, its basic spirit is the same that the essence of socialism is accomplishing the human equality. The idea of equality is also the key idea of Marxist theory about human liberation.The theory of the essence of socialism has carried forward the human civilization, and it has developed the humanism traditions. As a specific system of equality ideas of human society, the theory of the essence of socialism deems that the development of social productive forces is the foundation of accomplishing the human equality, and it has a characteristic of objectivity and progression. In a word, accomplishing the human equality is an objective historical process. Marxist expectations about social equality contain two steps: First, public ownership of producer goods solves the equality problem of human economic position; second, the complete consistency of productive forces and relations of production cause material wealth to fully flow, which supplies the material foundation for people to completely develop the individual capabilities on their own, and the complete development of the human manpower will truly lead to the human social equality. According to Marxist theory, if mankind is unable to accomplish the economic liberation, she will not truly accomplish political liberation. In the two steps, the public ownership of producer goods is the outer condition of human economic liberation, and the complete development of the human manpower is the inner condition of human economic liberation.On the whole the theory of the essence of socialism has gone through three...