Research On Moral Construction Of New Socialist Countryside

With the continuous progression of socialist market economy and the development of material civilization, the construction of spiritual civilization and people's ideological moraity is playing a more and more important role in our society. Moral construction is an indispensable important part of the task of building a new socialist countryside; it is also an important way to realize social modernization and to cultivate rural people's subjectivity and help people develop in all aspects.Chapter one mainly focuses on historical materialism to lay down the theoretical basis for moral construction of a new socialist countryside. This chapter criticizes moral conceptions of objective and subjective idealism.Moral conceptions of objective and subjective idealism both deny the practical relations between subjects and objects; only with materialist conception of history or perceptual practical activities based on certain social relations can we disclose the real origin of morality category and its essence, operating rule. What's more, this chapter probes into fundamental characteristics of morality category and its reciprocal relations with economy, politics and culture, and casts light on the social-historical functions of morality development.Chapter two explicitly probes into the dual-effection brought about by the development of rural productive force, social relations and family structure on rural idelogical and moral fields since reform and opening-up. On one hand, the development of modern market economy and productive operation styles in rural areas has remarkably promoted rural people's notions or opinions of freedom, equality, democracy, law etc. while rural people are breaking the shackles of traditional backward opinions, such as convention of ties of blood and locality, their modern moral ideas are strengthening. On the other hand, rural peoples' ideas become independent, complex, uncertain and diverse. Rural areas are faced with the arduous task to guide peoples' ethic and value views, to perfect the system of moral construction, and to pay attention to juvenile and children's ethical problems.Chapter three explores comprehensively the framework elements of moral construction of new socialist countryside. Its content element includes social morality construction, professional ethic construction, family virtue construction and personal morality construction. Subject element includes CPC group, none-party member adult group and juvenile group. Environmental element includes natural environment, social environment and spiritual environment, which feature complexity, openness and uncertainty. Motive element includes oriental motivation brought by collective economy and public affairs, internal motivation produced by people's spiritual needs and the propelling motivation broght forth by fairness and justice of social system. Carrier element includes rural organization, mass media and folk culture etc.Chapter four explains about idea resources theoretical guidance and important characteristics about moral construction of new socialist countryside. We must inherit the excellent elements of traditional ethics and domesticating methods. While we draw lessons from Marxist pesant theory, we must stick to the guidance of the system of socialist core values in the course of moral construction of new socialist countryside, which determines the direction or the essence of new socialist countryside's moral construction and offer strong spiritual motivation for it. Building up the system of socialist core values is helpful to guide rural trends of social thought, to promote rural people's belief of socialist morality, and to offer rural people moral orientation. The moral construction of new socialist countryside is necessary to build a moderately prosperous society, to lay down substantial basis to build socialist harmonious society and to help people develop in all aspects. The moral construction of new socialist countryside has the characteristics of combination of progress and extensiveness, inheritance and criticalness, comprehensiveness and emphasis.Chapter five concludes the effective methods to promote moral construction of new socialist countryside. First, we must develop the socialist market economy to lay solid bases for the arduous task.Continue to perfect socialist market economy system, and promote the reform of rural economic system. Second, we must reinforce the construction rural democracy to guarantee social morality with political authority. To strengthen the leadship position of rural party organization, to promote and perfect the construction of rural self-governance and coordinate the relation of these two committees so as to offer practical plans or ways to cultivate morality in rural society. Third, we shoud try to occupy the countryside with the system of socialist core values, which should be put into effect in national education and village pact or criterion, be carried out by party members actively and be propagated in ways of folk culture. Finally, we must create and perfect ethical rewarding and punishing system to guarantee socialist morals with essential authority, with the role system performed by organization, public and fimaliy, etc.