Number Of Important Issues Of Socialism With Chinese Characteristics Of Civil Society Research

Civil society of socialism with Chinese characteristics (or"Civil society with Chinese characteristics") is the public sphere of society outside the country's political life with the gradually going on of China's socialist market economy after the reform and opening up. In this 30 years, it developes from scratch, from weak to strong, has had an increasingly important impact on the economic and social development of our country and has been playing an increasingly important role in Chinese socialist modernization drive. As a result of the outstanding performance of the civil society in several major incidents, 2008 was known as"the first year of China's civil society."Theoretical study of civil society in China, which Started in the early 90's of last century, has made much progress over the past 20 years, but compared with the requirements of the practice development of the Chinese civil society, it still lags behind. Theoretical study of civil society in the policy of the consequences of This leads to the result that China's institutional environment of civil society has not yet been fundamentally improved and the development of various social organizations are still subject to a number of man-made factors. The fundamental way to solve this problem is to launch research on the interaction between civil society and socialism with Chinese characteristics on the latitude of the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and realize the building of China's civil society with Chinese characteristics. Based on the guidance of Marxism and the concept of civil society in the economic, political, cultural and social, this thesis explores the relationship of China's civil society and the socialist market economy, democratic politics, advanced culture and a harmonious socialist society in more depth, and reaches the following conclusions:Civil society with Chinese characteristics is a insurmountable historical stage of China's social development, is the inevitable result of the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics and has an important role in the process of socialist modernization of China. Therefore, we must emancipate the mind, seek truth from facts. We must conduct in-depth research on the laws of development of civil society with Chinese characteristics and theoretical and practical issues related, gradually build a relatively systematic theory of civil society of socialism with Chinese characteristics and provide a theoretical guide on the healthy development of civil society in China. This thesis consists of the introduction and the body, which has five chapters, and the main contents of each part are as follows:In Introduction, the thesis deals with the background, the status and the significance of the research, with emphasis on the need of research on civil society from the perspective of Scientific Socailism and the starting point and research ideas of the thesis. It stresses that the current difficulties encountered by the practice of civil society development in China is to be solved by the subjects disciplinary agency from the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics to be addressed at the level, as the theoretical and practical basis for the the existence and development of contemporary Chinese society is socialism with Chinese characteristics.Chapter I introduces the basic elements of the theoretical study of contemporary civil society, the developing course of China's civil society and analyzes its historical inevitability and main characteristics. This chapter concludes that the Chinese civil society is the country's social autonomy relatively independent of the political area, which develops in the process of the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics to protect and enhance the theme of civil rights, which is formed of economic, social and cultural areas and with the private sector, community organizations, public areas and social movements as its structural elements. It is the inevitable result of the development of China's socialist market economy and has such charateristics as the country-driven generation and development, the combination with the basic system of socialism and with Chinese historical and cultural traditions as basis, and so on. This chapter lays the foundation for the study of the relationship between civil society and socialism with Chinese characteristics in the following parts.Chapter II reveals the meaning of civil society in economics through the introduction of the theory of civil society of Hegel and Marx. On this basis, it further analyzes that the intrinsic mechanism of civil society is the market economy and studies the multi-faceted role of civil society in the development of the socialist market economy. This chapter stresses that we need to constantly deepen the reform of the economic system while actively fostering and promoting the healthy growth of civil society with Chinese characteristics so as to promote the"upgrading"and improvement of China's socialist market economy.Chapter III makes a brief study of the ideas of the two liberal thinkers of civil society, John Locke and Tocqueville, summarizes the six patterns of relationship between the political state and the civil society from the perspective of contemporary civil society theory, reveals the meaning of the civil society in the political science, that is, its essence is democratic politics, its core is the relationship between state and society. On this basis, it expands the role of civil society in the construction of socialist democratic politics from three aspects: the expansion of the political participation of citizens, the building of service-oriented government and the balance of powers.Chapter IV excavates the cultural connotations of civil society in three dimensions, that is , Gramsci's"cultural leadership"thinking, civic culture and civic-mindedness and analyzes the important function and status of civil society in the building of the advanced socialist culture with Chinese characteristics from three aspects, that is the"Re - Enlightenment of Gramsci'cultural leadership'", the"civic culture and advanced culture", and the"civic-mindedness with the modernization of man".Chapter V expounds the meaning of civil society in sociology through the introduction of the thinking of civil society of Parsons, Habermas and Cohen and Arato. On this basis, it analyzes the internal consistency between civil society and the harmonious socialist society from three aspects, that is, the historical process, the basic values and the subject of building. It also introduces the main functions of civil society in building a harmonious socialist society in the following dimensions, that is, democracy and the rule of law, the stability and order, the honesty and friendliness, the fairness and justice.Concluding remarks summarizes the whole thesis and confirms the insurmountability of civil society in China in accordance with Marx's three-stage theory of social development, and reiterates the importance of in-depth study of civil society in China from the dimension of theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics.