Research On Contemporary Chinese Liberalism And New Left Trend In A Comparative Perspective

As the indicator of social change,the monitor of public psychology and the adjustment instrument of values,social ideological trend has a great influence on the construction of a country,the development of the nation,the progress of society and the prosperity of culture in a certain period.Since the reform and open policy,with the thought liberation degree of deepening,the public opinion platform of expanding in domestic,and with the cultural exchange opportunities of increasing,the globalization process of accelerating in abroad,China's diverse social ideological trend has developed rapidly.For a time,social ideological trend,which has all kinds of disposition of individual and country,local and foreign,traditional and modern,nation and world,has painted a colorful picture in the ideological and cultural field of our country.However,social ideological trend is not a mere representation of people's mental movements and thoughts.Because of having distinct class position,clear value orientation,strong political appeal and systematic institutional arrangement,social ideological trend will inevitably infiltrate or erode national policies and national regimes.In contemporary China,social ideological trend is like a kaleidoscope and therein lies liberalism and new left trend.As is known to all,both liberalism and new left trend have a strong ideological tendency and a determined political system intention.With the deepening of social change and concept differentiation in China since the mid-1990 s,it's a heated debate which focuses on domestic social reality problems between liberalism and new left trend.This heated debate is at the center of today's ideological struggle in China.It not only reflects people's panic anxiety and opinion divergence about where China is going from a macro level,but also refracts the sophisticated interests contradiction and value conflict among different social strata and social group from a micro level.It can be said that the debate between liberalism and new left trend is a major ideological confrontation that has a directional and overall significance at the critical moment of the transformation of China's social modernization.Both sides have a certain charisma and influence inside and outside,official and civil.They also try to find a way out for China's social development by sheltering,deconstructing or even subverting the mainstream ideology.However,both of them are filled with a dense utopian colour due to they are out of China's development in the project design,alienate the broad masses in the interest concern and deviate from the mainstream values in the value concept.There is no doubt that the struggle between liberalism and new left trend is an objective fact in contemporary Chinese society.By analyzing the Chinese and western liberalism and the Chinese newleft trend,this article illustrates the theoretical origin and development process of Chinese and western liberalism.At the same time,this article also elucidates the conceptual connotation,theoretical basis and psychological basis of new left trend.All this shows the inner link between Chinese liberalism and western liberalism,Chinese new left trend and western new left to us.Regard it as a breakthrough point,according to analyze the generation environment,development vein,existence form of contemporary Chinese liberalism and the real cause,transmutation process,expression pattern of contemporary Chinese new left trend,we can discover and summarize some regular features.It is true that the evolution of liberalism and new left trend is only the tip of the iceberg in China's diverse social trend.In this diverse picture,liberalism and new left trend are not isolated individual,they are also closely linked to other social trends.We said liberalism and new left trend are opposite in the basic position,realistic assessment and politics opposite,not that they have nothing in common in ideology,social change,modern construction and problem consciousness.Run back over the debate between liberalism and new left trend in the last 20 years,its profound debate background,grand debate topic,rich debate content and variable debate process present us a chaotic phenomena in contemporary Chinese social trend.In general,whether in terms of the theory integrity or in terms of the practice operability,contemporary Chinese liberalism and new left trend contain too many value variables.They show different values for the same Chinese problems.Owing to the dependence of theoretical logic,the exclusiveness of political logic and the dogmatism of thinking logic,contemporary Chinese liberalism and new left trend not only have both misconception and deviation in theory,but also have antithesis and disparity in value.These are mainly reflected in how to view China's market economy,democratic politics,civilization mode,social nature,reform and opening up,freedom and equality and globalization process.Obviously,this intrinsic value fission reveals the anti-marxism and non-marxism ideological nature of Chinese liberalism and Chinese new left trend separately.Therefore,it is necessary for us to re-examine the position and the reality of China's ideological construction.From the perspective of comparing liberalism's and new left trend's different values,we can grasp the relationship between them and the mainstream ideology as a whole,and then analyze their potential ideological hazards intensively.The problem,however,is that we should value an thought system in terms of its the environment and the stage.As is known to all,China has been suffering from an ache of ideology differentiation and consensus collapse.This debate which happening between liberalism and new left trend just reflects the shortage of ideological resources at one level.Therefore,in the face of thearduous task of ideological construction,on the one hand,we should be good at stripping the scums of liberalism and new left trend,and try to avoid their discourse traps.On the other hand,we also need the courage to learn the useful resources of liberalism and new left trend,and grasp their development tendency accurately.By means of integrating their values,we can make them better fit the mainstream ideology discourse.But fundamentally speaking,to jump out the theoretical mold of liberalism and new left trend,to break through the ideological barriers of liberalism and new left trend,except the necessary value criticism and resource reference,we need to transcend them in practice.This requests us to follow principle,search method and construct target simultaneously.Only in this way,can we completely dissolve a risk from liberalism which attempt to abandon socialism and take an erroneous path.Only in this way,can we completely dissolve a risk from new left trend which attempt to accepts both the old and rigid closed-door policy.