The Last Zhou Yang Supporting Humanity

The article of debating about Marxism and several theoretic problems published by Zhou Yang cause a great disturbance. He was forced to make a self-criticism for political reasons, at last died of grief. This article discusses the reason why Zhou Yang is concerned about the problem of humanism and the alienation and analysis the main points and features of Zhou Yang. With the end of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the social environment makes the people throughout the country rethink. Because of the tragic experience in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Zhou Yang rethinks, confesses and self-judges in new period.Zhou Yang profoundly thinks of the theory of Humanism, and puts forward that Humanism not only exists in Capitalist society but also in socialist society. And he revalues his critique about "the theory of human nature" in recent seventeen years. The problem of Alienation is a very sensitive question. Zhou Yang maintains that alienation exits not only in socialism but also in capitalism. Alienation has three different forms of expression in socialist society. There are comparison between the point of Zhou Yang with the point of Hu Qiaomu.At last the text discusses the historical location about Zhou Yang in his late years, and the influence on literature and society because of humanism and alienation.