Capitalism And Socialism In World History

Socialism and capitalism are two kinds of different social formations and social systems in our human history, and their future and destiny are completely different.Capitalism taking the place of feudalism is a historical progress, but capitalist exploiting essentiality and its basic insuperably conflict decide its historical fate to death. Ever since the 1950's, great changes happened in capitalist politics, economy and social life, etc.These changes indicated: modern capitalism had partial qualitative change, but its basic character kept unchanged; on the one hand, modern capitalism appeared historical transition nature to a new society, on the other hand, this kind of transition would be a quite long historical process.For socialism, not only the production of theory but also the exploration of pratice and building up system, and all these are an inevitable result, and represents human society forword direction. Socialism suffered great setback at the end of of 20th century, but not indicated the failure, contrarily, the governing parties of soviet eastern countries giving up socialism led to the result. So socialist countries must strengthen self-construting during reform and opening to outside world, and persist in socialist direction. The basic situation of socialist movement is still difficult and the socialist development of future will take on a new characteristic, and so many patterns will appear in socialist revolution and construction road. For the form of socialist revolution, peaceful way will become the main one. Facing the rough waves which the globalize dominated by capitalism, socialist countries shoud know and deal with correctly the relationship with capitalist countries and strengthen itself in the competition. Global future certainly is a kind of globalize dominated roundly by socialism.