Tracing The Sources Of The Characteristics Of Deng Xiaoping's Thought On Justice

Deng Xiaoping's thought on justice is a scientific thought formed and developed in the process when Deng was exploring a road to the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics. It is an innovation and development for the traditional views of socialist justice under conditions of a new era and has its own fundamental characteristics. The study of such characteristics and the sources of their production has a certain theoretical meaning for widening the study fields of Deng's theory and broadening the view angles and deepening the study layers. Such a study also has a definite practical meaning for the deep understanding of the view of socialist justice and for the instruction of the practice of the justice in the socialist society. In this thesis, starting from the thinking principle of the historical comparison and the dialectic analysis, three characteristics of Deng's idea on justice are summarized. The kernel idea is that being commonly well-off is realized when those who become rich first help others who become rich later. It is necessary to obtain the dialectic unity between relations of justice and efficiency. As for the problem of interest distribution, both the collective and individuals are emphasized, and at the same time, the revolutionary spirit should be encouraged. Based on the clarification of characteristics of Deng's thought on justice, the theoretical, cultural and practical sources of the formation of such thought characteristics are examined in the thesis. The thesis assumes that the justice view of Marx and Engels provides theoretical foundation for Deng's thought on justice, is the source of the theory for the formation of Deng's thought on justice and is the ground for establishing his thought. Mao Zedong's view of justice provides theoretical results, experience and lessons that can be learnt from for Deng's thought of justice, and thus is a valuable source for the formation of characteristics of Deng's thought on justice. At the same time, Deng drew positive nutrition elements, such as the view of "Great Harmony" and the view of "interest on a moral principle", from China's traditional culture; and they become the cultural source of characteristics of Deng's thought on justice. In this thesis, emphasis is put on the analysis of the practice source of characteristics of Deng's thought on justice, and this source is the main source of the formation of characteristics of Deng's thought on justice. The specific era environment on which Deng's thought on justice depends is bound to cause it to display a certain kind of historical state. Adapting himself to the switch of the era theme, Deng Xiaoping timely transformed the traditional socialist view of justice into his own distinctive view of justice. At the same time, in solving new problems put forward in practice, in drawing experience and lessons from the practice of China's socialist construction, and in analyzing the nature of socialism and the specific national situation in China's socialist preliminary stage, Deng formed his thought on justice that has features of the new era. It is assumed in the thesis that, through the study of characteristics and their sources of Deng's thought on justice, Deng's view of justice adheres to the organic unity of absoluteness and relativity, of inheritance and revolution, and of the subjective activity and the objective reality. And this has an important meaning of methodology for solving problems of socialist justice in the new era.