The Judgment Of The Nature Of Time And The Socialist Practical Choice

Starting with reviewing the relationship between Time Theory and the socialist practice, this thesis is to establish the direction of socialist market economy in human development, which will provide enlightments to socialist theoretical innovation and its strategy formulation. That is also the purport of this thesis.The nature of the time, the subjective understanding of the objective reality of certain social stage, is an overall view and basic judgment of what is happening or what is going to happen. Marxist Time Theory belongs to the important content of historical materialism.Karl Marx once divided the human history into "Five Types of Social Formations"or "Three Types of Social Formations" according to different dimensions: The former divided human beings into different classes based on technology level of means of production and the nature of ownership, which reflected the development stage of social relationship; The latter considered the human being as a whole based on production capacity, which showed the development level of the relation between the human and nature. According to the former, Marx and Engels firmly believed that capitalistic production relations can't adapt to the requirements of the great mechanical productive forces which were represented by steamer, and that they were in the historical stage of socialism replacing capitalism.And for a long while, Marxists insisted on the above judgment about the nature of time. In the early of the 20th century, Lenin believed that imperialism was the dying of capitalism, and then decidedly started the October Revolution which led the backward people to lead off the socialist construction. In the mid-twentieth century, Chinese Communist Party seized power and Mao Zedong expected a world revolution. However, his Revolution-Focused and Production-Boosted Strategy failed. After 1978, China turned its way to reform. Deng Xiaoping raised the epochal theme of peace and development. But it's not until the collapse of the former Soviet Union and East Europe occurred did Chinese Communists be thoroughly aware of the fact that we are in a epoch of which capitalism and socialism will exist side by side for a long time and it's time to promote socialism by developing market economy.The great success of Chinese reform testifies to the tremendous strength of market economy, which demands us to probe further into its function in human social development. And here, Marx's Three Types of Social Formations Theory has laid the foundation of understanding this problem. Socialist market economy will show its transcending capitalist market economy as well as presenting for the human being a way towards ideal society.