Analysis And Appraisement On Mao Zedong's Concept Of Social Development

The concept of social development is about the basic viewpoint and the basic view aboutthe development of the economic society.It decides the development path,the developmentpattern and the development strategy and it has an important and fundamental influence to thepractice of the social development.Today,when we advocate the scientific concept of thesocial development, reviewing the history,studying and summarizing the advantages and thefailures of the MaoZedong society concept of the social development have extremelyimportant theory value and the practical significance. Mao Zedong's concept of socialdevelopment is a microcosm at initial stage of China's modernization, which includes not onlythe other countries' experience in modernization, but also his unique way of the socialdevelopment issues. Therefore, it will be beneficial to reveal Mao Zedong's concept of socialdevelopment objectively and impartially. Further more, it will be conducive to further clarifythe lines of China's social development. And in the end it will lay the foundation for a morescientific and more rational concept of social development.Mao Zedong's concept of social development is a vast system. As to the aim of socialdevelopment, it takes the realization of socialism as its basic value, takes planned economy asthe economic axle, takes democratic politics as political goal, and takes modernization asprimary objective. As to the motive of social development, Mao Zedong put forward thetheory of dynamic motive systems. He argued that two types of social contradictions were thefundamental driving force for development. Continuous revolution is the radical socialdevelopment momentum while the mass practice is essential for social developmentmomentum. On the other hand, the destitute social reality is the objective factor of socialdevelopment momentum, whereas human will is the spirit of social development momentum.As to the strategic choice, Mao Zedong proposed "Catching up and surpassing strategy ",which looks on high speed as its core, and the heavy industry dominated by steel industry asthe main point. The strategy has both positive and negative sides. As to the understanding ofthe relationship between the internal structure of social development, Mao Zedong believedthat economy was the basis of politics, and politics commanded economy;economicdevelopment provided material basis for social development, and economic developmentresults should be shared among the mass, social development should keep pace witheconomic development, and even advanced;social development offered precondition forpeople's comprehensive development and the comprehensive development ultimately servedcommunity development;social development should obtain something from the natural world,from the unilateral nature of the excavation resources;social development should be inbalance with the uneven advances.Mao Zedong's social development theory has its complex background system, andvarious ideological origins. His community development concept is dynamic, experiencingthree changes from thinking rationally, pursuing speed, and choosing the wrong way.Mao Zedong's social development concept has important theoretical and practical value,which is the main theory to guide our social development before the reform and open policy.To some degree, it breaks through Marx's social development theory, and proposes some richcreativities and heuristic development ideas. Meanwhile, it paves the way for the developmentof socialism with Chinese characteristics, of contemporary science development andharmonious social concept.However, Mao Zedong's society development thought also falls into sorts of difficultpositions. More is taken for the country;emphasis is put on accumulation while consumptionis less paid attention to. A giant gully has been formed between powerful nations andprosperous common people;In order to realize the democratic political pursue, on the issue ofbureaucratic politics, Mao lacks the thought for systems and merely think about questionsfrom politics, and finally leads to the paradox between the goal and the result. Equality isemphasized while efficiency is not so important, the low-leveled egalitarianism has thereforeformed;Moreover, he relies too much on the revolutionary traditional culture, insufficientlyregards the modernity knowledge cognition. It looks on economy as the main direction ofsocial development. Social development coordination and the sustainable question receiveless consideration.Mao Zedong's society development concept's difficulty has some special reasons: thehistorical condition, the relative close social environment, the opposition between capitalismand socialism, Mao Zedong's romanticism mood, and so on.As is shown by the analysis above, we should inspect Mao Zedong's development theoryhistorically, dialectically and objectively.