Marx's Oriental Theory Of Society And The Value To Contemporary China

The Oriental theory of Society is relative to the west in terms of social theory, which mainly accounts for the vast majority of countries and regions in the world's population of the oriental world as the background, mainly to Russia, China and India, and is about Marx in his later years discussing on the historical development of oriental societies, the real social situation and the future theory of the transition to communism. Marx's Theory of Oriental Society is the world's precious intellectual heritage. Up to now, there are many scholars of Marx's Theory of Oriental Society who has an extensive and in-depth study and put forward a number of unique views. The practice of socialist development of contemporary China has also prompted people to rethink the great practical significance for this theory.Marx began to research this theory on the erosion of capitalism, under the nation's deep sympathy for the east to study the geographical changes on his social development theory had a profound impact. By analyzing the unique social nature of Oriental society, the basic characteristics and development status, Marx realized, human society has diversity of forms, and the part prancing development is absolutely possible. From a new angle he re-examined and predicted the path of development of the Oriental Society of special possibilities. Therefore, we have studied Marx and Engels's the Oriental Theory of Society, we must also adhere to research methods of historical materialism.This paper first gave an overview of Marx's Theory of Oriental Society, Clear the background of the times, the formation process, the key elements, basic characteristics and research methods. Secondly, I have explained the historical development of social theory, Lenin's development of Marx's Theory of Oriental Society of Marx and Mao Zedong's promotion to the Theory of Oriental Society. Finally, the writer has demonstrated in-depth the Oriental Theory of Society's guiding role in building contemporary socialism with Chinese characteristics.Marx's Theory of Oriental Society has been given a new form and content in the different periods of revolution and construction in the eastern countries. Only combining Marx's Theory of Oriental Society and the realities of each country, can we explore a real specific road of oriental society. I try to find a combination of theoretical and practical point of view of Marx's theory of oriental society, confirming Marx's theory of oriental society, in order to interpret the contemporary value of Oriental Social Theory of Marxism. Particularly, I concentrate Marx's Theory of Oriental Society and combine the practice of China today to find the combination between Marx's Theory of Oriental Society and the Contemporary socialism with Chinese characteristics, to pursue the theory support to the characteristic socialism with Chinese characteristic for more rich contents.