Mao Zedong's Socialist Thought And Its Contemporary Value Research

As a progressive social pattern and an ideal social system in human history, Socialism has its inherently special essence and characteristics of development."What is socialism, and how to build and develop socialism" This was a basic problem for numerous thinkers, revolutionists and the majority of the proletariat and the working people to think and explore. In China, socialism is the historical choice made by people for100years in modern times, from choosing socialism by the Chinese intellectuals to establishing the basic socialist system after the founding of New China, and then to ushering in the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics during the new period of reforming and opening up. This process is logical, in which socialism is perceived, carried out and developed in China. In this process, there are many great thinkers, revolutionists and people with aspiration of socialist ideal and they continue to pursue and explore socialism, making indelible contribution to its germination, sprouting, blossoming and fruiting in China. Of course, as the founder of China, Mao Zedong is included.Socialism is the idealistic goal that Mao Zedong pursuits and strives for in his lifetime. He not only leads the Party and people to the track of socialism, but also has a comprehensive understanding and exploration in "What is Socialism and How to build Socialism". Although he doesn't succeed in perceiving and exploring socialism,his socialist ideology provides precious theoretical heritage for socialist cause with Chinese characteristics in new period. After the death of Marx, Engels wrote in a letter to Liebknecht saying:"what we have today should be attributed to Marx; all the achievements from modern movement are attributed to his theories and practice, we remain lingering in the darkness up to now without him." I thought, Engels'words are also true of Mao Zedong. Without Mao Zedong, there won't be a New China. Without his arduous exploration into socialism, there won't be a prosperous new situation of socialism with Chinese characteristics after reforming and opening up. Therefore, when meeting with Italy journalist Oriana Fallaci in1980, Deng Xiaoping pointed out that:"Chairman Mao's contributions are primary. He is the main founder of the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China, and what he has done for Chinese people cannot be denied. He has saved the Party from crises for many times. Without Chairman Mao, we Chinese people still need to grope in the darkness for a longer time at least. At the same time, he emphasized:" The flag Mao Zedong thought shall not be lost. Lost the flag, actually denies the glorious history of our party.""In many ways, right now we still do what Mao Zedong has been proposed but did not do the things, and correct his erroneous opposition and do he did not do well. For a long period of time, we have to do this thing. Of course, we also have the development, but also continue to develop."The historical evaluation from Deng Xiaoping is very objective and impartial. In fact, the socialism with Chinese characteristics in new period is developing just because of the lessons from Mao Zedong'socialist theory on the basis of the understanding of and exploration into socialism before the reforming and opening up. And It is also based on the reason above, in the early2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly put forward the important "the Two undeniable" proposition, that we cannot deny the history before reforming and opening up period with that after the reforming and opening period, Vice versa on the seminar where the members and alternate members of the Central Committee studied and implemented the spirits of the18th CPC National People's Congress.Mao Zedong is not only the great founder of the People's Republic of China, but also the forerunner of exploring the Chinese socialism. He did not formally proposed the proposition of socialism with Chinese characteristics, but throughout his life, he made unremitting efforts for the value of socialism under the ultimate value of "care and save" with his theory and practice. So to speak, the value pursuit of "care and save" has been lingering in the mind of Mao Zedong, and when he discovered and chose socialism, the advanced social pattern and system which can realize his "ideal realm", he's going to conduct a big experiment to explore socialism. To this end, he has made arduous efforts and also paid a heavy price while making great achievements. Of course, whether success or failure, this is related to Mao Zedong's scientific or false understanding concerning socialism. Therefore, only when Mao Zedong's understanding of and exploration into socialism are kept on, that is, Mao Zedong's socialist Thought must be researched continuously, can the socialist cause with Chinese characteristics in new period be constantly developed and advanced on the basis of Mao Zedong's exploration into socialism.This paper will combine Mao Zedong'ultimate value" care and save" with the socialism which can realize the "ideal sanctuary" to investigate the origin of Mao Zedong socialism thought and Mao Zedong Socialism Thought's germination, formation, development and unsmooth development. Analyze the basic content and major characteristic of Mao Zedong's socialist thought in a comprehensive manner and its contemporary value and the world influence as well as the internal logical relationship between the socialism with Chinese characteristics and Mao Zedong Socialism Thought. Conclude the lessons and inspirations for us from Mao Zedong's understanding of and exploration into the socialism. At the same time, explore the connotation of value of "care and save" hidden in the hearts of Mao Zedong from the inspection and analysis, and probe into the germination, formation, development of socialist ideology and mentality changes of Mao Zedong in the total process of unsmooth development, so as to grasp the essence of making efforts to combine the Marx doctrine with the China's reality and strive to find out the profound reasons why Mao Zedong explores socialism successfully and unsuccessfully. In addition, this paper also tries to compare people's social mentality in old time with that of new period. In order that the thought of justice and fairness, preventing and combating bureaucracy, curbing corruption and other passivism included in the Mao Zedong Thought of socialism can be useful for solving many social problems in new period. In short, this paper discusses and studies from the two lines of historical research and psychological analysis developing in a vertical way, trying to get more objective and valuable research results.