The Thought And Modern Meaning Of "Putting People First" In Marxism

The Third Plenum of the 16th National Congress of CPC clearly presented the important thought of "adhering to "putting people first", building the comprehensive, balanced and sustainable development concept, and promoting economic and social development and all-round development of human being". This "scientific outlook on development" put forward the social development concept of sticking to "putting people first". It is scientific conclusion of my party's third generation leaders who observes pragmatic scientific approach summing up the experience of success and failure on the road of socialism development home and abroad, based on combination of the theory of Marxism with the actual conditions of China. It is also the inheritance and development of Marxist "putting people first" thought.Marxist "putting people first" thought goes back to ancient times. It is continuation of the positive results of past thinkers, which reveals the human nature, lays the theoretical foundation of truly realizing communism. In Marxist views, the history progress and the human development is the mutually coordinated process, yet communist society is "people's full and free development as the basic principles of the social forms".If we want to understand the Marxist "putting people first" thought, we must first make clear what is the definition and nature of people, and profound connotation of this thought. For the essential nature of "people", Marx surpassed the thought of Hegel and Feuerbach, combining the natural and social nature, common and personality of human being. Marxist "putting people first" thought inherited the spirit of Western humanism, and draw on the positive elements of humanitarian so that he accelerated this theory to a new height.Any philosophical principle has its origin in history, as does Marxist "putting people first" thought. It mainly comes from the Utopian socialist theory, the cultural traditions of Western humanism and Feuerbachian humanism ideas. Marxist "putting people first" thought runs through the entire contents of dialectical materialism and historical materialism theory. In the Marxist classics, we can find that Marx and Engels elaborated on Marxist "putting people first" thought mainly from the comprehensive development of society and people, which is from human being as an important factor in history and society, and the democratic rights and the humanitarian spirit, and so on.For contemporary China which is just a developing socialist country, it is the starting point and end-result of building a harmonious society to adhere to Marxist "putting people first" thought and promote the comprehensive development of human being. "Putting people first" thought put forward by the Chinese Communist Party is not only the continuation of Marxism "putting people first" thought, but also the deepening and development of our party's administrative ideas and the perfect combination of Marxist theory and actual situation in China. What is more, it is the jumping-off point of contemporary Chinese culture enlightenment. In a word, it is the value foundation and the guiding ideology of building a harmonious society...