Studies On The Idea Of Deng Xiaoping's Socialist Image

"What is socialism and how to build socialism" is the fundamental priority of Deng Xiaoping Theory. As the chief architect of socialism with Chinese characteristics, Deng Xiaoping has devoted his whole latter half life to the persistent exploration of the history proposition of what is socialism and how to build socialism. Deng Xiaoping figured that " The Soviet Union had conducted for many years on 'What is socialism like' and had not completely clarified it yet." [ "Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping", Volume 3, the People's Publishing House, 1993, Section 139. ] Then, what exactly is socialism? Taking consideration of the practice of socialism in his old age Deng Xiaoping advanced the well-known theory that the essence of socialism is to liberate and develop the productive forces, to eliminate the exploitation and polarization, and ultimately to achieve common prosperity" [ "Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping", Volume 3, the People's Publishing House , 1993, Section 373. ] ,which is an excellent answer to "what is socialism and how to build socialism." However, Deng Xiaoping's understanding of socialism is far more incisive than what these 28 words can be interpreted. He had on various occasions employed "essence of socialism" ,"characteristics of socialism" and "principles of socialism" to explain "what is socialism and how to build socialism". In the practice of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, he tried to outline the image of socialism, explore ways to build socialism from the political, economic, cultural, social and other aspects. Deng Xiaoping's thinking of the image of socialism is his comprehensive understanding of socialism which answers scientifically "what is socialism and how to build socialism" from different perspectives such as what the image of socialism is and how to shape the image of socialism.Materials systems and spirit are the main constituents to sustain a society , and the social image is formed by those three factors all the same. What materials signify is the natural--matter basement in society and the manufactures which meet the requirement of social develop and human's needs. The developing statues of materials rest with the special manners of exchanging matters between society and nature, while this special manner in the person of the definite productive level. It will not only restrict the development of the society, but also the social style of features represented in different conditions. The social relationship formed in the various areas of economy, politics and culture is fixed in a normative way during their social practice, and many different systems are formed constantly. They are not only the object of people's essence in their communication, but also the important element which affects the social style of features. The element of spirit means people's attitude to culture and their concept to object, and it includes cultural psychology and social consciousness. The cultural psychology is the coagulation and sedimentation of conception formed on the condition of social history and concept conformation. However, Deng Xiaoping's visualized idea of socialism is build up from the three aspects of matter, system and image. Social consciousness is the dominant theoretic thought in every society and age, while spirit is the important embodiment of social image. It is also the collective structure, consisting of the same basic living attitude, sensibility manner, thinking pattern, and merit concept, which is formed by the same cultural background.The socialist material image includes the socialist productive image and value goal image. Deng Xiaoping once pointed out: "We say that socialism id the fundamental stage of communism. In the advanced communism we will practice the principal that everyone do what he can do and he is distributed according to what he need, which requires the further development of socially productive forces and great richness of socially material wealth. Thus, the main task during socialism period is developing productive forces. The superiority of socialism is in essence reflected by that the productive forces of socialism innovates more quickly and highly than that of capitalism, and also by that it has been improving the people's material and cultural life during the process of productive forces. The socialist productive forces are that it develops at a high degree, and the socialist value goal is that the people get to common prosperity. Therefore, to shape advanced socialist productive forces must improve productive forces. The productive forces consist of laborer, labor means and labor object etc, in which the laborer is the principal part. Only if we control the number of the laborer, . improve their skills and stimulate their initiative, the principal part will improve the productive force,; scientific technology is the first productive force, so to keep valuing basic research, developing sophisticated scientific techniques, stimulating the function of higher schools' study, co-developing education and scientific technology, combining scientific technology and economy are the main ways to improve socialist scientific technology. Learning from and drawing on all achievement of human civilization is a indirect productive force of socialist innovation. Therefore, the main ways to promote socialist development are learning sophisticated scientific technology, drawing on advanced arrangement methodology, taking effective way of distributing law materials. Poverty becomes the socialist problem when people were over "Kafdin Valley", and equalitarianism obstructs the development of social productive force. Thus in order to shape common prosperity, which is the socialist value goal, we have to eliminate poverty and equalitarianism; also we have to practice the policy that the people who have been rich help those who haven't and that avoid dividing the people into rich level and poor level. The socialist system image includes the images of socialist economic, political and cultural systems. The economic system image in the socialistic society are the public-owned and distribution according to work system; The party system leaded by the communist party, the democratic system of dominating the country by the people, the socialistic political system of governing the country on the basis of law, and the full-scale development are cultural system image in socialism society. It is a process which matured step by step from the primary socialism to perfect socialism. Because the economic system image in socialism society is a dynamic one, so the image shaping of public-owned system must be based on the practical system level and the productivity level. To shape the image of distributing according to work, we must distribute goods according to their working quantity and quality, and consider our country and neighbors. Besides, on the basis of this distribution system, there can be more distribution manners existing at the same time. we must persist on the leading station of Communist party, strengthening the construction of the party, and opposing the bourgeois freedom when we shaping the image of our systern; We must make the principle of dominating the country by people as the basic one, and insure it according to congress system, party cooperative system and government negotiate system when we shaping the democratic system. Besides, we must perfect the legal system, persist on the equal system, and carry out the law system. All in all, we must posses the space eyeshot of facing to the world, the time vision of facing to the future, and the practical angle of view of facing to the modernism. The free and full-scale development is the main character designed by Marx and Enges, and to persist on the full-scale development is the core of socialism cultural system.Socialistic spirit images are comprehensive of the socialistic image of aspiration and faith,the socialistic image of morality and discipline as well as the socialistic image of accord development. The socialistic image of aspiration and faith is embodied in the adherence to the Marxism and the socialistic image of morality and discipline is embodied in the moral excellence and strict discipline, while the socialistic image of accord development in the solidification,stabilization,peace and development. With the ambition to create the socialistic image of aspiration and faith, we assure the mission to uphold the guiding hole and the spirit of keeping abreast with the times of Marxism,instruct people to foster the lofty ideal of communism and agglomerate them with the aspiration and faith. With the ambition to create the socialistic image of morality, we assure the mission to persist in the central position of service to the people,the principle of the collectivism and the advocacy of the socialistic conduct. With the ambition to create the image of socialistic discipline, we assure the mission to strengthen the institutional improvement and the ideological and political education and ensure the realization of ideal, concentrating on the reinforcement of the Party's law. With the ambition to create the socialistic image of accord development, we, on the basis of national unity, assure the admission to make the productive force and the productive relation suitable for the superstructure, which can be regarded as the core, and achieve the stabilization of the society, which serves as the symbol. Only when we have access to these mentioned can we create a harmonious image of the country, which is characterized by the unity and the stabilization. What's more, we should consider the interest relations among countries as the core,the communion of the universal culture as the way and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence the guide line. By virtue of these, we will be on the way to create a harmonious image of the world which is featured as the peace and developmentWith respect to the material image,the system image as well as the spirit image, the image thoughts of Deng Xiaoping Socialism constructs the socialism image from three aspects. Not only does it embody the essence, features and the principles of the Socialism, but it also embody the Socialism phenomena beyond them and further create the socialism image which has its root in but not confines itself to the detailed socialist countries. Integrating the basic concept of the scientific socialism with the practice of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, the image thoughts of Deng Xiaoping Socialism advances with the times and makes a breakthrough in the alteration of the image of the socialistic planned economy,unitary public ownership and the imagine which fails to be compatible with the capitalism. In addition to this, the image thoughts of Deng Xiaoping Socialism reclaims the excursion of the socialism image due to the Soviet mode and creates the socialism image with Chinese characteristics, which succeed in blazing new trails for the development of the scientific socialism in China and proves itself to be the major achievement of the localization of the Marxism in China and also a significant constituent part of the theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics. As the practice of building socialism with Chinese characteristics has proved, Right tendencies can destroy socialism, but so can "Left" Ones. For the reason that the image thoughts of Deng Xiaoping Socialism functions as the touchstone in the judgment as to whether the tendency is left or right, we should adhere to it in the struggle against either left or right tendencies. We should unswervingly persevere in building the socialism with Chinese characteristics on account of the fact that the great banner of the socialism with Chinese characteristics is the banner of the contemporary China's development and also of the concerted efforts of the people of the whole Party and all ethnic groups. Guiding our building of the socialism with Chinese characteristics,the image thoughts of Deng Xiaoping Socialism is the theory we must hold firmly to on condition that we hold high the great banner of the socialism with Chinese characteristics.