Socialism And Free

The relationship between socialism and liberty is a complicated topic covering different aspects and fields. This paper based on the history and logic of socialism, from the angle of Scientific Socialism, makes a deep study on the topic of socialism and liberty, which is of utmost importance. Theoretically, it can deepen our understanding of the developing discipline of human history, socialism and Marxist liberty theory. Practically, it can combine socialism with liberty tightly to direct the liberty construction helpfully.The paper insists in the scientific research approaches to study the topic. On the one hand, it is directed by the fundamental principles of Marxism. The fundamental principles of Marxism is a great way for the proletariat to recognize the world and recreate the world, and also the basically directive thought to study socialism and liberty which can ensure the study is around the socialism, adapts to the history development, and meets the needs of socialist development. On the other hand, it utilizes the comprehensive means of multi-subjects. The topic of socialism and liberty is so extensive that philosophy, politics, sociology, law and scientific socialism should be used together, which can make the conclusion more systemic, fill well the needs of the study of scientific socialism subject, and much closer to the practice of socialist construction.The paper includes four parts: the preface illustrates the meaning of the topic, its research achievements and the definition of liberty in author's opinion; the second part traces back theoretically to the liberty thoughts in the history, the liberty thoughts of Marx and Engles and consistency of liberty and socialism; the third elaborates on how to realize liberty in practice under the condition of socialism with Chinese characteristics, which is mainly involved in four means of the socialist economy development, the socialist democracy construction, the socialist culture prosperity and socialist harmony. The forth is the conclusion, that is man's all-round development is the final aim of liberty.The research achievements are mainly as followed: one is to generalize and conclude the definition of liberty. There being a great deal of definition of liberty, the paper not only classifies various liberty doctrines, but also generalize definition of liberty with Marxism character, furthermore it identifies the definition strictly as the root and base of the paper. The second is to clarify liberty thoughts of Marx and Engles. The formation of liberty thoughts of Marx and Engles is the result of criticizing and developing the positive parts of other liberty thoughts in the history, goes into a comprehensive and systemic body of theory and is the directive thoughts of socialist liberty construction. The third is to explore the necessary connection between socialism and the essence of liberty in theory. The inner connection is the inevitable result of history development. The relationship between socialism and liberty can be shown by the followings: liberty is the common value pursuit of human beings; liberty is what socialism should contain; socialist system provides a wider prospect for the realization of liberty. The forth is to confirm that the practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics does promote the realization of liberty. Liberty cannot be gotten by nature, but by the continuous efforts in the practice. As a result, the paper needs to answer the question: in socialist nations by what means and measures can take into effect and advance the realization of liberty step by step. The paper elaborates thoroughly and concretely on how to realize liberty in practice under the condition of socialism with Chinese characteristics, from the four aspects of the socialist economy development, the socialist democracy construction, the socialist culture prosperity and socialist harmony. At last, the paper believes that man's all-round development is the final aim of liberty. To reveal the final aim of liberty by the needs of human beings can find out the origin and ultimate goal. Man's all-round development is the essential need of socialism; in theory and practice of socialism, the realization of liberty must depend on the man's all-round development.The paper only expounds theoretically and practically relationship between socialism and liberty, aiming at having a general outline of the topic and providing basic ideas. The relationship socialism and liberty is so complicated that it is impossible to solve all the problems clearly in a dissertation. So, it leaves some space for the further study in the futuristic development of theory and practice.